Digital files and collect options
The biggest complaint from print vendors is “missing pieces,” such as missing fonts or images not linked to a file. After ensuring a file has the greatest integrity (meaning it will print with no graphics errors), FlightCheck assembles all elements used to combine the document into one folder. Not only are all images collected, so are the screen and printer fonts, ensuring that all digital pieces link together to recreate the digital file at the print facility. If you print your own mailers or fliers, this is helpful in organizing content. If you outsource to a printing vendor, this function also ensures that no time is wasted searching for missing elements.
Before digital files and collect options, a printer would routinely check to see if all four pieces of film were present and that each imaged correctly. Every time a file had to be re-imaged, the cost of a standard four-color page increased by about $60. The cliche is true: time is money.
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