Comments on: Print Workflow Standardization: preflight, convert, automate http://markzware.com/flightcheck-articles/workflow-standardization-educate-preflight-convert-automate/2009/06/24/ Makers of FlightCheck (preflight), PageZephyr (desktop search), Q2ID, Pub2id, and ID2Q (data conversion) Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: First Preflight than PDF; or before you laydown that highway ramp… | Markzware http://markzware.com/flightcheck-articles/workflow-standardization-educate-preflight-convert-automate/2009/06/24/comment-page-1/#comment-2947 First Preflight than PDF; or before you laydown that highway ramp… | Markzware Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:51:44 +0000 http://www.markzware.com/blogs/?p=2937#comment-2947 [...] the “design firm” had to pay the nearly 1 million dollar fee to re-do it all? A good prepress department is worth it’s weight in gold really. (And gold is expensive these [...] [...] the “design firm” had to pay the nearly 1 million dollar fee to re-do it all? A good prepress department is worth it’s weight in gold really. (And gold is expensive these [...]

]]> By: Digital Textile Printing - Why Preflighting Is Important http://markzware.com/flightcheck-articles/workflow-standardization-educate-preflight-convert-automate/2009/06/24/comment-page-1/#comment-2517 Digital Textile Printing - Why Preflighting Is Important Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:18:56 +0000 http://www.markzware.com/blogs/?p=2937#comment-2517 [...] I recently joined a new printing community for wide format printers called www.wideformatworld.com, which also has a nice networking portion on their site. There I met a contact new to me, but certainly not new to prepress, FlightCheck and printing, Mr. Roland Biemans from Hollanders Printing Systems. After small talk about his days in repro and using FlightCheck Professional, we got onto the subject of textile printing. Hollanders manufacturers high quality textile color printers. Here is Roland’s detailed answer on why the process of preflight is so important in the textile print workflow: [...] [...] I recently joined a new printing community for wide format printers called http://www.wideformatworld.com, which also has a nice networking portion on their site. There I met a contact new to me, but certainly not new to prepress, FlightCheck and printing, Mr. Roland Biemans from Hollanders Printing Systems. After small talk about his days in repro and using FlightCheck Professional, we got onto the subject of textile printing. Hollanders manufacturers high quality textile color printers. Here is Roland’s detailed answer on why the process of preflight is so important in the textile print workflow: [...]

]]> By: Preflighting Color Graphics and InDesign Layouts; Moore’s Law in Prepress http://markzware.com/flightcheck-articles/workflow-standardization-educate-preflight-convert-automate/2009/06/24/comment-page-1/#comment-548 Preflighting Color Graphics and InDesign Layouts; Moore’s Law in Prepress Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:06:56 +0000 http://www.markzware.com/blogs/?p=2937#comment-548 [...] interesting piece on Moore’s Law and the prepress department, which was a good insight into pre-media: “These components of pre-media all have their place of importance and need to be correctly [...] [...] interesting piece on Moore’s Law and the prepress department, which was a good insight into pre-media: “These components of pre-media all have their place of importance and need to be correctly [...]

]]> By: tunicca http://markzware.com/flightcheck-articles/workflow-standardization-educate-preflight-convert-automate/2009/06/24/comment-page-1/#comment-547 tunicca Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:36:01 +0000 http://www.markzware.com/blogs/?p=2937#comment-547 It's an interesting topic, as most companies know or have been quietly dealing with, the files have been coming from multiple input sources for a long time now, be that word, some freeware application, or the commercial grade design applications; but now we are seeing that these input files could actually be used on one of the required output channels and therefore the files need some sort of preflight of the output channel process they are destined for. An example could be classified ads where office people create a simple word document and submit it to the pre-media company by email, an automated business process needs to be able to check that the word or character count conforms to the ad specifications and that their are no additional objects in the document, but, these ads could now be coming in as part of the campaign and thus the pre-media workflow needs to handle and perform the checks before they are pasted upstream. We have for a long time tried to educate people on the formats we want to handle, but instead have found ourselves placing extremely complicated business process workflows in place to save time and money. Therefore there is an evolution of the graphic arts world coming where the software and servers we once installed to handle the standard graphics formats for our pre-press workflow now need to handle ANY file format that generates a form of output in the new pre-media world. http://tunicca.wordpress.com It’s an interesting topic, as most companies know or have been quietly dealing with, the files have been coming from multiple input sources for a long time now, be that word, some freeware application, or the commercial grade design applications; but now we are seeing that these input files could actually be used on one of the required output channels and therefore the files need some sort of preflight of the output channel process they are destined for.

An example could be classified ads where office people create a simple word document and submit it to the pre-media company by email, an automated business process needs to be able to check that the word or character count conforms to the ad specifications and that their are no additional objects in the document, but, these ads could now be coming in as part of the campaign and thus the pre-media workflow needs to handle and perform the checks before they are pasted upstream.

We have for a long time tried to educate people on the formats we want to handle, but instead have found ourselves placing extremely complicated business process workflows in place to save time and money.

Therefore there is an evolution of the graphic arts world coming where the software and servers we once installed to handle the standard graphics formats for our pre-press workflow now need to handle ANY file format that generates a form of output in the new pre-media world.

http://tunicca.wordpress.com

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