Abstract: A plate stacking and transferring apparatus includes plate stacking mechanism for continuously stacking plates. The mechanism comprises: a pair of rollers provided at the leading end of a conveyor for transporting pasted plates, for taking a plate in a gap therebetween while rotating and thus ejecting the plate, and adjusting the plate ejection angle; a collision wall for limiting the flight distance of plates; a first stacker table for receiving plates while descending; a device for registering plates stacked on the first table by repeatedly pushing the plates from the sides thereof; and a second stacker table provided below the first table. When the first table has passed the stack of plates over to the second table, another device of the stacking mechanism moves the first table to a standby position above the plate flight region, keeps it at the position, and moves it down to a position below the plate flight region during a shot so that the first table takes over the plate stacking.