A device to check and correct the position of plates for electronics, associated with a loading station of the plates and with a printing unit of an apparatus for depositing metal or other material, in which there is a video acquisition member to acquire at least an image indicating a position occupied by the plate in the loading station. The device comprises movement and positioning means suitable for the reciprocal alignment of the printing unit and the plate, as detected in the loading station, there also being present a control, processing and governing unit.