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

By Jean-Marie Hershey

For example, Rosen says, it may or may not be a preflight error when a box is positioned half on and half off the page, or when a job may print well but still be unacceptable to the print buyer. In other cases, the press may be slightly out of calibration or an ink nozzle is malfunctioning. Each of these, Rosen says, is beyond the power of preflighting to resolve.