Automated Prepress Workflow Increases Efficiency

Preflighting software comes in many forms: stand-alone software, Web-based software, plug-ins to popular software packages, 'software-as-a-service' models, and others. Some are resident at the printer's or converter's facility. Others are given to customers to check files before they are delivered. But, they all do the same thing. The automation prevents a prepress department from wasting valuable time checking a number of file components manually rather than focusing on value-add services. Or, more importantly, they prevent the cost of a plate problem or on-press errors that could have been caught much earlier.