Preflighting is used to automate print workflows, even more so to preflight PDF. When things are less manual, you need even more print quality control measures for Adobe files and other document types for preflight and print.

FlightCheck is the patented preflight solution from Markzware that can check many document types for print quality assurance. FlightCheck can find potential printing errors before output, to allow correction before printing. This saves time, labor, materials and money for professionals in marketing, printing and publishing industries. Since Markzware develops this pre press software, we noticed this customer experience with the preflight process within the Apogee (Agfa) set-up:

‘We have seen a clear demand for intelligent optimization of PDF files,’ said Bart De Pelsmaeker, head of software group at Agfa Graphics. … This new processing component gathers all job specific production characteristics and dynamically tunes the PDF accordingly, including the application of any required color management… this truly adds another dimension to preflighting.’
Source: http://www.graphicrepro.co.za/asp/news_long.asp?nid=13613

It is important to preflight PDF files during the prepress workflow to ensure proper printing. The FlightCheck preflight solution can check PDF and many other file formats for printing quality assurance. Check out FlightCheck today! See more printing solutions on the Markzware Products page.

Another dimension in automated workflows and preflighting: Agfa Apogee Suite 6