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

By Jean-Marie Hershey

According to Vicki Blake, director of business development, Enfocus, and executive director, Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG), The Ghent PDF Workgroup has defined four preflight profiles: one for exchange of design files to brand owner or prepress and three more for the exchange of files from prepress to converter, engraver, or flexo platemaker. Each addresses the specifics of the “downstream” printing process. These profiles are available free at www.gwg.org.