Ensure an Error-Free Print Image and PDF

FlightCheck is the patented preflighting technology invented by Markzware. This pre press software can check documents in many file formats for print quality assurance. Markzware realizes that we work and live in confusing and complex times. This is especially true for graphic designers, photographers, illustrators and other graphics professionals, who are finding that the need to preflight before printing is greater than ever.

As one prepares digital files, steps need to be taken to make sure to consider:

missing fonts
missing images
packaging fonts with files
converting colors to CMYK
checking trapping for accuracy
etc.

Preflighting digital file elements, before PDF creation, increases the chance of error-free document output. Markzware’s preflighting software, FlightCheck, scans files and provides preflight reports to warn of possible printing issues.

FlightCheck can check InDesign, QuarkXPress, CorelDRAW, Illustrator, PDF, Microsoft Publisher, and more, and can notify users of more than 150 potential prepress problems. Printing pros say the best way to deal with missing fonts, improper trapping and scaling, print image problems, and other prepress problems is to prevent them from occurring. Once you preflight what needs to be checked in the native file, you can continue PDF creation and ensure error-free printing.

Three easy preflighting tips to improve your print workflow:
1. Speak to your clients and provide information on what they should supply to ensure print-ready files. Consider furnishing customized preflight profiles or supplying them with a preflight tool. Preflight tools can spot problems before files are imaged to film or plate or converted to PDF format.

2. Allow enough time to review projects properly before output. Give clients enough time to fix prepress problems. Haste indeed makes waste.

3. Discuss issues such as ink density, dot gain and ink spread on the media that will be imprinted. Take these values and program them into your preflight tool to ensure that prepress guidelines are met.

Jobs submitted for print often include at least one error, such as a missing font or an RGB image in a CMYK job. That can lead to the time-consuming process of sending files back and forth between print buyer and provider. Each party may believe the other is responsible for noticing and fixing errors. FlightCheck offers the solution.

Many print providers and service bureaus say preflighting occurs too late in the workflow. One advantage of preflighting is that it enables the process to begin sooner – before files leave the desktops of graphic designers. Graphic designers benefit by correcting files on their own equipment, improving turnaround times and preventing possible charges from printers. Printers benefit by receiving print-ready files that reduce downtime.

Use FlightCheck to preflight image files. Preflighting can help to improve your print image, and, consequently, your company’s image. You can buy Markzware’s preflight solution via the FlightCheck page. See more printing solutions on the Markzware Products page.

Ensure an Error-Free Print Image and PDF