Abstract: In a method and/or a device for placing and transferring sheet items folded at least once and featuring a stacking device for the delivered sheet items and a compression device and in which the sheet items are placed or stacked singly or bundled on a placement table, the resulting bundle is elevated with the placement table, locked in this position and compressed; the subsequent bundle produced in the same way is then combined with the already compressed bundle before the stack is finally lateral-transferred together with its holding device.