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

By Jean-Marie Hershey

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Markzware’s Flightcheck is one of the oldest solutions for preflighting native files outside the original software, including PDF. Preflight tools designed exclusively for PDF production workflows include Enfocus Software’s Instant PDF, StatusCheck, and Pitstop Professional; Callas Software’s pdfInspecktor2; Apago’s PDF/X Checkup; Kodak Synapse Prepare; DALiM Software’s SWiNG; and Jaws PDF Courier from Global Graphics. Because the preflighting of incoming PDF jobs is a necessary task in modern packaging workflows, Esko-Graphics integrates the most common preflight tools in its comprehensive packaging and commercial print workflow, Scope. n