The invention relates to a method for the control of a paper-processing machine, wherein the occurrence of one defect is detected automatically with the aid of at least one detection device (8,9). The defect is eliminated by self-repair and after determining the defect, the measure is automatically used to eliminate the defect. When the defect does not occur, the measure is at least partly stopped. In other conditions, if the detection device (8,9) still determines the defect after a certain standard such as a certain time segment, the device thoroughly stops. The defect is eliminated based on the self-repair using the device, therefore it is not necessary to trigger to alarm and also not necessary to make the device thoroughly stop.