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

By Jean-Marie Hershey

No can do

While preflighting may be something of a modern graphic arts miracle, it’s far from a panacea for everything that can go wrong with a file. Consequently, Rosen says, “preflighting as it stands today is not designed to resolve subjective issues that arise during the production of a print job,” nor to compensate for a lack of creative intelligence behind a given design.