Check a Batch of Images for Print Quality Before Printing: FlightCheck

Check a batch of images for print quality before printing, by preflighting with FlightCheck, Markzware’s standalone app for print quality control:

It can be challenging to check images in a page layout document, to ensure that the document is print-ready. A preflight solution could provide print quality assurance, avoid re-printing, and save valuable time and money.

Markzware successfully supports a full range of offerings for the print, publishing and graphic arts industries. Markzware’s FlightCheck is the thorough preflight solution to check files for file problems and to avoid printing issues. FlightCheck also provides preflight reports and will package fonts, images, and other print files into a folder, for easier collaboration and sharing.

Preflight reporting is useful, because it flags issues, enabling pre-press operators to check out alerts and warnings. See FlightCheck pre press software in action, when you watch this demonstration video:

Check a Batch of Images for Print Quality Before Printing: FlightCheck

The latest version of FlightCheck allows users to preflight Photoshop CC 2018, InDesign CC 2018, Illustrator CC 2018, and other graphic design documents. Markzware’s print document checker can also bulk preflight a batch of image files, to catch errors, before you print your documents.

How to Check a Batch of Images for Print Quality Before Printing, via FlightCheck:
• Install and activate FlightCheck preflight software.
• Click on your preferred checkboxes in FlightCheck’s Preferences and Ground Controls about details to check.
• Set Ground Control items to Off, Warning, or Error, depending on the needs of your print workflow.
• Drag and drop your image files (PNG, JPG, EPS, TIFF, etc.) onto the FlightCheck icon to begin the preflighting process.
• FlightCheck will alert you to the potential printing problems that you specified.

Sorting Files to Check a Batch of Images for
Print Quality Before Printing, via FlightCheck:

FlightCheck offers tailored pre-flight management of print files. The quality of the resulting document can give a boost to your organization’s image and possibly to its revenue.

The Media Arts Department was proud and excited to utilize Markzware products in the making of its Senior Photography catalogs. Without FlightCheck training and the software itself, this small catalog would have never made it to press. Not only did the Senior Photography catalog make it to press, but it made it there with no pre-press errors, just preflight and print!
– Harris Fogel, professor and chairman of The University of the Arts media arts department

FlightCheck provides many benefits:
• offers an extensive preflight checklist to help you through the preflight process.
• enables team members to complete tasks and update the print job folder in real time, preventing duplicate and repeat work.
• helps printers to use less material and save on costs.
• allows customization, to suit the particular workflow.
• is much less fatiguing than conducting an exhausting visual check.
• can inspect both PDF and non-PDF documents for printing quality.
• makes the print workflow more efficient and productive, by locating file problems with bleed, image resolution, etc.
• provides insights into the print quality of the prepress file.
• provides prepress and printing professionals with a powerful collection of printing tools for automatic preflighting and error-free output.
• saves preflighting time, with built-in print detail selections.

Markzware FlightCheck Image Preferences, to Help
Check a Batch of Images for Print Quality Before Printing:

Creative professionals can take advantage of FlightCheck’s features for preflighting:
• opportunity to batch preflight multiple files at one go, to optimize productivity.
• support for PDF, INDD, PSD, AI, QXP, PostScript, EPS, TIFF, and other print file types.
• Ground Controls options that give you the freedom to customize your print workflow.
• support for several languages, including Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish.
• file collection to package images, fonts, and other file items into one print job folder.
• alerting to the discovered file problems.
• stand-alone preflight ability.

Poor image resolution. We see this issue come up a lot. Just because an image looks crisp and clear on your desktop or printout in the office doesn’t necessarily mean it will be crisp and clear on a large printed item. To ensure your images do look their best, make sure you are using the highest resolution possible. We recommend 300 ppi or higher, at minimum.
Source: https://www.businessprintingco.com/common-printing-mistakes/

FlightCheck adds high value and optimum print quality control for printers, publishers and graphic designers. This pre-press solution quickly detects and reports file problems before they become printing problems.

Markzware FlightCheck Images Ground Controls to
Check a Batch of Images for Print Quality Before Printing:

FlightCheck enables users to preflight several DTP image and file types, including:
• Adobe Acrobat
• Corel CorelDRAW
• Encapsulated PostScript
• Adobe FreeHand
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe PageMaker
• Adobe Photoshop
• Quark QuarkXPress
• Tag Image File Format
• Microsoft Word
• much more

Pay close attention to image resolution (250-300ppi is typical). Changing image size will change the printed image resolution. You will want your final PDF to be high resolution.
Source: http://www.davidairey.com/prepress-tips-for-graphic-designers/

Preflighting is important and can benefit many parts of the print document workflow. FlightCheck can check image resolution, ink density, and more, to ensure print quality.

Markzware FlightCheck Images Ground Controls Expanded to
Check a Batch of Images for Print Quality Before Printing:

Some print areas of concern on which FlightCheck can report:
• colors
• file format
• fonts
• image
• missing image
• image resolution
• bleed
• ink density
• broken links
• scaling

An unfortunate text error could mean a complete print failure for your organization. Luckily, users can check for file problems, by leveraging the power of the stand-alone FlightCheck application.

For more information on Markzware‘s preflight software to check digital files for print quality control, see the FlightCheck page. For more desktop publishing (DTP) and printing solutions, see the Markzware Products page.

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Check a Batch of Images for Print Quality Before Printing: FlightCheck