With the handheldSCAN4Matrix© one can scan disks at any place and at any time and the stored, disk-specific information is displayed directly. Thus, employees finally gain a tool for the digital management of their plates and the logical extension of the existing plate management. Printers and prepress staff no longer have to laboriously decipher the plain text on the plates. Working in the plate archive becomes easier, faster and safer. Printing plates can be easily stored and retrieved via the touch display.