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

By Jean-Marie Hershey

Packaging variables

Packaging workflows present a few special preflight challenges. For example, packaging may introduce objective parameters such as page or job dimensions, die or cut lines, special trapping requirements, and more spot colors than usual. Other special considerations might include channel mapping, knockouts, or overprints. In a typical packaging environment, there are also many color models using non-traditional process printing.