A method for placing headers in connection with the packing of paper, cardboard, pulp or equivalent web material reels, in which method, one multiaxis industrial robot (1) or equivalent apparatus picks inner headers (2) and outer headers (9) to be placed in the paper reel from storage racks or places (3, 3', 10, 10'). The invention is implemented such that the inner headers (2) and/or the outer headers (9) are transferred to placing manipulators (4) which move in the longitudinal axial direction of the paper reel and take the inner headers (2) at the heads of the paper reel (5) and/or equivalently the outer headers (9) onto head press planes (11) with a motion in the longitudinal axial direction of the paper reel (6) and in its cross direction (7) or a combination of these motions.