Markzware shows you how to check Adobe Photoshop CC printing quality via pre press software, FlightCheck. Take a look at Markzware’s article and demonstration video:
Quality print results for incoming PSD files can be challenging to achieve, especially if do not preflight your Adobe Photoshop documents. File problems happen, even to Photoshop users. So, it’s a good thing that there is a preflight solution to help printers, publishers and graphic artists to preflight Adobe documents.
Markzware supports prepress tasks and enables you to produce quality print documents that professionally present information to your customers. FlightCheck is one of Markzware’s printing solutions that you can use to preflight Adobe PSD Creative Cloud files, to catch errors before press time.
Many professional print shops, publishing houses and graphic designers use FlightCheck Mac for print quality control. Learn the steps for preflighting Adobe CC files via Markzware’s prepress solution, FlightCheck, by watching this video:
How to Check Adobe Photoshop CC Printing Quality: Pre Press Software
Markzware‘s FlightCheck supports Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) and many other file types for stand-alone preflighting, as well as for file collection and packaging, on the Macintosh system. FlightCheck will warn you of issues, so you can correct your PSD documents before printing them.
How to Check Adobe Photoshop CC Printing Quality via Pre Press Software:
• Install and activate FlightCheck preflight software.
• Click on your preferred checkboxes in FlightCheck’s Preferences and Ground Controls.
• Set Ground Control items to Off, Warning, or Error, depending on the needs of your print workflow.
• Drag and drop your file onto the FlightCheck icon to begin the preflighting process.
• FlightCheck will alert you to the potential printing problems that you specified.
FlightCheck can prove to be an especially useful prepress tool. Use Markzware FlightCheck for preflighting and impress your print customer, by exceeding quality expectations.
Some of FlightCheck’s Benefits:
• assures your associates and clients that a preflight checklist has been completed before delivery.
• enables team members to stay up to date on a specific print job, using a single folder.
• provides high return on investment.
• allows you to organize preflight checks in various print areas.
• relieves the workflow of a tedious visual check, by automating the preflight process.
• is much less exerting than performing a time-consuming 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, resolution, etc.
• provides print quality control, to reduce the risk of poor print results.
• provides a detailed preflight report that you can use for proof of preflight, task completion, etc.
• expands the capabilities that you can offer to customers.
• saves preflight, prepress and print process time, with built-in preflight checklist selections.
Pre Press Software, Markzware FlightCheck, Can
Check Adobe Photoshop CC and More for Printing Quality:
Some of FlightCheck’s features:
• stand-alone preflight ability.
• customizable Ground Controls.
• chance to select multiple files for increased productivity during the same preflight process.
• support for a variety of regional languages, including Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish.
• packaging of the print job files into a single folder that enables collaboration.
• preflight report on possible printing issues.
Markzware FlightCheck handles a tremendous range of file types and its preflight report can provide support for client communication. In addition to CorelDRAW, QuarkXPress, EPS, TIFF and Word files, FlightCheck can preflight the following Adobe file format versions:
• Acrobat v3.0 – CC 2017 (PDF)
• FreeHand v7.0 – v11.x (FH)
• Illustrator v6.0 – CC 2017 (AI)
• InDesign v1.9 – CC 2017 (INDD)
• PageMaker v4.2 – v7.x (PMD)
• Photoshop v4.0 – CC 2017 (PSD)
Been working on a detailed and attractive Photoshop layout and think it is ready to print or publish? Be sure to preflight it, first!
Some print document details about which FlightCheck can report:
• colors
• fonts
• image resolution
• file format
• missing images
• ink density
• ICC profiles
• image type
• embedded images
• transparency
• trapping
You can use FlightCheck to check and collect print files before production. Preflighting with FlightCheck is more comprehensive than merely using a visual check to catch document errors.
For more information on Markzware‘s pre press 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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How to Check Adobe Photoshop CC Printing Quality: Pre Press Software
