How are PSP plates loaded into scanners?

• A. One plate at a time
• B. Two plates at a time
• C. All plates at once
• D. By plate size

Answer: (A)

PSP plates are loaded into scanners one plate at a time. The scanning process is designed to handle a single plate in the read/erase chamber: the plate is fed through the scanner, where a laser reads the latent image line by line and then the plate is erased to prepare it for reuse. Loading more than one plate at once would risk feeding jams, misalignment, and mixed images, because the optics and transport path aren’t built to process multiple plates simultaneously. Plate size matters for fitting into the slot, but it doesn’t change the need to feed one plate at a time.