There’s a lot of prep work to be done before you can get your print job off the ground.

By Jean-Marie Hershey

“Like any assembly process, quality assurance should happen at various stages,” Markzware’s Rosen says. “Maybe a job arrived that is up to spec, but became corrupted when being moved from one location to another. Or a job arrives and appears to be valid, but for scheduling reasons needs to be processed on a different device or printed on a different press. By doing a final check, any issues can be caught before committing the job to plate or film.”