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

By Jean-Marie Hershey

Search and destroy

Following a series of automated and manual steps, basic preflighting software checks the un-RIPped digital file for soundness, based on preset or user-defined parameters. Many also offer automatic “correction” of common file problems. (We’ll have more to say about that.) In short, preflighting is the very first stage and linchpin of the prepress workflow that renders the whole process more efficient and productive.