Preflight Basics for Graphic Designers

Preflight basics for graphic designers are discussed in this video (part of a series) about preflighting quality assurance checking for graphic designers. Learn how to preflight your Digital files destined for print or online use.

In this educational overview, we cover the main reasons to preflight your InDesign, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Photoshop, and PDF layouts. David Dilling, product specialist at Markzware, the founders of this niche market, with FlightCheck, also helps students understand the main preflight problems. #graphicdesign #education #graphicarts

An Introduction to Graphic Communication (https://igcbook.com/), originally published in 2007 by PIA/GATF, has been completely revised and digitally enhanced. It is perfect for students, designers, and newcomers to the #printmedia or #printing world. The book includes online video content, including this segment from Markzware.

More about how to ensure print-ready documents created in many file types used in graphic arts, printing, and publishing workflows, using FlightCheck, the stand-alone preflight app:
https://markzware.com/products/flightcheck/

Multi-purpose pre-flight applications such as Markzware’s FlightCheck, not only provide a quality control check for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress files, but can also do a double-check on the exported PDF or image files. Let's call this last part a "post-flight." This provides more confidence that the incoming print job is READY to proceed in your workflow or to be output by the printer to plate, or press.

Print PDF or otherwise, the key is the job input. This cannot be overemphasized and is imperative, so that the final product will not error-out, in the back-end print workflow. Print quality in, print quality out.

Numerous items that are rarely considered include: hairline rules, overlapping layers, wrong color model, image resolution, and even missing fonts. The preflighting process requires educating, not only yourselves, but perhaps other people in your internal and external workflow.

Preflighting needs to be initiated upstream, at the graphic design level. This may be accomplished by communicating and educating your print-shop regarding proper file preparation, to solidify quality control. Ask your print-shop for their requirements. No RGB, only CMYK colors? Effective image resolution above 300 dpi? Work with the printer, to setup your FlightCheck Ground Controls (Preflight profiles) and ensure that everyone working on art for this print layout is adhering to these quality assurance aims.

FlightCheck is a multi-award winning, stand-alone application that will find most, if not all, of the most common preflight errors in design. As graphic designers, we are not perfect. Use checking methods outlined in this video, to help stop problems, before they go to press and print.

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Preflight Basics for Graphic Designers

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