Print Is Not Dead. If You Preflight.

Print is not dead, if you preflight. However, 70% of PDFs and files for print have job-stopping errors costing millions in reproduction.

“Quality is everyone’s responsibility”

W. Edwards Deming

Would an airplane pilot ever take-off without performing a preflight check? The answer is “no.” Then why would you drop your PDFs into your publishing workflow without performing a thorough preflight? Thousands of Markzware customers rely on FlightCheck every day to check their PDF or source print-files, such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop or QuarkXPress before they output (print or create PDF)/send off. Whether it is an open file type or a PDF, FlightCheck Professional will not only check for the Top Ten preflight problems but will scan your documents for literally hundreds of potential and costly output problems, even solving the issues for you. Best of all, encourage the use of FlightCheck throughout your extended workflow, as a PDF is only as good as the native or source files it is created from!

Whether it is hairlines or RGB colors, image compression or ink density of your PDF, FlightCheck will let you know. Stop the “Top-Ten Preflight Problems” today and start saving more!

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Last before you add FlightCheck to your basket here for only 399 per copy(normally 499!), I wanted to share a great interview from a customer at the recent Print09 trade show about why he uses FlightCheck Professional on both native (Quark, InDesign, Illustrator, etc) and PDF type print-jobs alike:

So, whether you print custom envelopes (do custom envelope printing) or do large digital printing, you should consider using FlightCheck to preflight your files before printing.

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