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

By Jean-Marie Hershey

Adds Gee Ranasinha of DALiM Software, “The design file is typically the native file, unless you ask it to create a PDF. The more important question is: Why are you preflighting? If you are preflighting for print output, what is the point to preflight the native file? You are not outputting a plate from that file. Whatever the file is that you output from—the last file before you RIP—that’s what you preflight.”