1. A method for the automatic determination of presetting values for the opening positions of inking zone setting elements of an inking unit of a printing press, the method comprising: providing an image data set from a prepress stage, at least one mark being integrated into the image data set; determining a region or an extract of the image data set automatically by scanning said at least one mark, said region or extract comprising image data relevant to the determination of zonal area coverage values; determining zonal area coverage values for a print from said region or said extract; and determining the presetting values for the inking zone setting elements from the zonal area coverage values.