Use Photoshop CC 2018? Markzware shows how to check Adobe PSD files on macOS for printing quality, via standalone preflight app, FlightCheck:
According to a Kiplinger article, “Photoshop, for example, is so popular that it’s often used generically to refer to any program that can edit and manipulate graphics.”
Source: https://www.kiplinger.com/article/investing/T052-C008-S001-adobe-systems-adbe-may-keep-soaring-in-2018.html
Document inspection with a preflight solution can help prepress professionals to determine whether a document is suitable for printing.
Markzware’s line of innovative solutions includes products and services for print, publishing and graphic arts file users. Markzware’s FlightCheck is the recommended printing solution for checking and packaging Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (Creative Cloud) and other file types.
Save your company from having to pay for and deal with additional press runs! See how, in this video about how to preflight Adobe Photoshop and other layout documents:
Photoshop CC 2018: How to Check Adobe PSD Files for Printing Quality
Markzware’s FlightCheck offers organized Ground Control categories for print quality control and will provide a preflight report, with details about file problems. Check your Adobe Creative Cloud 2018 and other design documents, to catch errors, before you print.
How to Check Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (PSD) Files for Printing Quality, via FlightCheck:
• Install and activate FlightCheck.
• Click Preferences checkboxes and Ground Controls.
• Set Ground Control items to Off, Warning, or Error, as needed.
• Drag and drop your pre-press file onto the FlightCheck icon.
• FlightCheck will begin preflighting and warn of specified file issues.
Need to package files? Markzware‘s FlightCheck can help you to find, move and compress each associated file to a folder that you designate.
FlightCheck has been an indispensable part of my production toolkit ever since I used it the first time. FlightCheck’s customizable control panels let me check every job quickly for the ‘deal breakers’ and get them fixed, and collect the jobs very efficiently. I’ve seen what some people call ‘jobs,’ that I’d call ‘train wrecks,’ because they haven’t bothered to check that the job is suitable for production. In my estimation, FlightCheck is a must-have for ANYONE who has to make sure jobs are ready for press or outside vendors.
– Jim Yarrow, print production expert, on FlightCheck preflight application by Markzware
FlightCheck offers many benefits:
• examines a list of essential print checkpoints, to ensure that the workflow does not overlook them.
• simplifies collaboration and sharing the print job with team members, customers, vendors, printers, etc.
• enables increased profitability.
• lets you customize preferences to check print documents and streamline complex preflighting tasks, in one comprehensive package.
• is useful for large, complicated documents that would require a huge amount of time and effort to check by hand.
• can preflight both PDF and non-PDF documents for printing quality.
• helps commercial print shops to be more productive, with impressive capabilities.
• enables users to discover file problems, before they become expensive printing problems.
• is a product by Markzware, leading publisher of preflight technology for print quality assurance.
• speeds up the preflight process, by eliminating time-consuming steps.
Markzware FlightCheck Preflight App Can Check
Photoshop CC 2018 (Adobe PSD) Files for Printing Quality,
as well as Other Adobe File Types:
FlightCheck provides a number of helpful features, including:
• batch preflighting to check multiple files in one preflighting session, to allow a higher production level.
• support to accommodate workflows that use multiple file types.
• customizable Ground Controls.
• support for a variety of regional languages, including Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish.
• file collection to package fonts, images, and print files into one job folder.
• preflight report on possible printing issues.
• support for Photoshop CC 2018, InDesign CC 2018, Illustrator CC 2018, and other print file types.
The latest version of FlightCheck once again sets the standard for professional preflighting. Markzware‘s solution to automate preflighting and packaging of Photoshop and other print files now supports preflight for CC 2018 files.
Markzware FlightCheck Images Ground Controls Expanded to
Check Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 PSD Files for Printing Quality:
FlightCheck supports all popular output formats:
• EPS
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• PDF
• Photoshop
• QuarkXPress
• TIFF
• JPG
• and more
For artwork with transparency, you can avoid shredded images in the PDF, by using Photoshop, rather than EPS, images.
Source: http://www.davidairey.com/prepress-tips-for-graphic-designers/
The latest FlightCheck version expands preflighting capabilities by letting users check Photoshop CC 2018, InDesign CC 2018, and Illustrator CC 2018 documents. This powerful tool also includes the ability to bulk preflight a batch of PSD and other page layout files.
Some common file problems that FlightCheck can inspect include:
• images
• colors
• fonts
• file format
• transparencies
• ink density
• page size
• trapping
This preflight solution can locate printing problems in your desktop publishing (DTP) files and provide a preflight report to warn you of errors. FlightCheck ensures reliable results and the print quality of the file is documented in the preflight report.
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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Photoshop CC 2018: How to Check Adobe PSD Files for Printing Quality
