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

By Jean-Marie Hershey

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But it is during the preflighting of the final PDF file used for output where the rubber meets the road. Explains Erik Cullins, director of sales and marketing, North America, Enfocus, “Native file preflight is useful when building a document to predict the quality of the final file; PDF preflight generally is used to determine final output quality” by making sure that both the elements of a graphics file and the file itself meet the specifications for the designated printing process.