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Using FlightCheck as a Graphic Designer

September 30th, 2009 admin No comments

Using FlightCheck Professional as a Designer



As a Designer, you worry about your design. Creating your designs is the thing you live for. Once they are done, you want to be confident they are printed just the way you intended them without unnecessary delays. How many times have you sent a file only to find out that the printed piece did not look the way you intended? Images that did not appear as you thought they would, a graphic resolution that you thought was higher, trapping that did not produce the desired effect.

Using FlightCheck Professional or FlightCheck Designer can help you prevent these problems. Both programs enable you to check your file for hundreds of potential prepress problems. Now, all you have to worry about is your design; FlightCheck will warn you about every possible problem that will effect your final print.

Today, everyone is using PDF so the responsibility for creating error-free files weighs more heavily on the designer. It is even more important than ever to get your files right the first time and this cannot start after creating the PDF, rather, it starts when you first set up your new design project. As you are setting up, creating or correcting the working document, you should be aware of all settings you use, the quality of every imported image, the use of every colour. To make this a lot easier for you, simply use FlightCheck Professional or Designer to check and correct your working file BEFORE you create a PDF. This way, it’s easy to guarantee your file is OK and the PDF you create will be correct as well. Furthermore, you will not have to make corrections in the PDF file which ensures that your source file is exactly the same as the resulting PDF file.

It’s easy to collaborate with your printers using FlightCheck Professional and Designer. You can import the Ground Control sets from every printer you work with. After that, just select the set of your choice and FlightCheck will take a look at every single element in your design to see if they live up to the expectations for the print shop you want to use.

This important designer tool helps you insure that your creative files will print as you expect at the print shop of your choice. No more phone calls about stalled projects, no more disappointing print results.



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Why use FlightCheck Professional

September 30th, 2009 admin No comments

How FlightCheck Professional
can help you save time and money



Markzware’s flagship, stand alone application, FlightCheck Professional just came out in a new version, version 5.8. This version contains enhanced readers for open file types as well as the full Ghent PDF WorkGroup compliant PDF Plus rule sets, including Pass4Press in the UK.

With this new version of FlightCheck Professional/Designer (v5.8) it is now possible to check your open file types (Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Publisher, etc.) and validate your PDF documents according the Ghent PDF WorkGroup (GWG) specifications. In the past, it was difficult to create a good PDF because of the enormous variety of settings that could be made. Now, with the nine standard GWG profiles, most every printing need is covered, and every one can be validated with FlightCheck.

Markzware is fully certified to preflight and validate PDF-files made with one of these profiles and provide clear reporting of problems found. Simply load FlightCheck’s PDF FlightPlan and choose one of the nine profiles to begin preflighting.

FlightCheck reports all the information you will need to analyze faults with its familiar on-screen views. When FlightCheck reports that your PDF file is OK, you can rest assured your file conforms to the GWG requirements. You have the FlightCheck assurance that third parties who work with these profiles can process your job without any problems.

Working with rule sets for open file types and PDF files is very easy. You can quickly create and select the set you need to check your file (see page 4) and make sure every file you send out is complete and ready for output. Never worry about sending a faulty document. With FlightCheck, it’s easy to be sure that all elements are present with the file and that all settings are correct.

FlightCheck is the “must have” tool for every professional in the Graphic Arts industry; from designer to printer to publisher. FlightCheck saves you time and money because every file you send is properly inspected and delivered with all its components. What more could you wish for? No more illustrations poorly converted to CMYK because you mistakenly placed them in RGB. No more trapping problems because your screen was not able to show you what the actual output would look like. No more font substitution surprises. No more bad print.

Make the decision thousands of professionals have made; use FlightCheck Professional/Designer to check both your open file types AND your PDF’s. Now the question remains: where to preflight? As the chart below shows, it is best to preflight at several stages of the workflow; wherever change is likely.



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Using FlightCheck Professional as a Printer

September 30th, 2009 admin No comments

Using FlightCheck Professional as a Printer



As a print production company, you know it is essential that the files you receive can be produced without any problems at any part of your production process. In the Graphic Industry, it is common practice for the Printer to take care of all the problems the client’s file has; many times at a great cost.

In the past 10 years much has changed. In the past, the Printer shouldered most of the responsibility for design quality. The designer now has sufficient compute power, application programs and experience to make their own creations. Unfortunately for the Printer, even veteran designers lack certain knowledge when it comes to the production process and the settings that are required to guarantee a smooth production workflow, especially with PDF. For the printer, the incoming file is placed in the ‘To Do’ bin, waiting in the queue for processing. Perhaps, after a day, the prepress department takes it to the RIP station or even further into the workflow (plates or even print or finishing), only to find that something was wrong with the file. A lot of time, effort and money (profit!) was wasted on a file that has to be re-printed! FlightCheck will eliminate this headache.

In today’s fast-paced world, the client drops off his file today and expects delivery in the shortest amount of time for the least amount of money. To deliver on that expectation, all you really need are error-free files that run smoothly through your workflow. Now, back to the real world. What you really need is a good way to check the files the minute they arrive from your client to make sure you can deliver the expectation first and foremost. With FlightCheck Professional, you now have the perfect tool to meet the customer’s expectation without sacrificing your profitability.

FlightCheck Professional is so easy to use that your Traffic Manager can check the file while the customer completes the job ticket. Simply by dragging and dropping the file on FlightCheck Professional, they will receive all the information that is needed to decide whether the file can be processed or requires work. With the Result and Overview window, all information needed to make a professional decision is at your fingertips. Staging files, redirecting them for correction or calling your client to make the changes is much easier and less expensive at this point than interrupting the actual production process.

Companies that use FlightCheck Professional see their production process run smoother and their operating costs reduced significantly. Amazingly, a full license for FlightCheck Professional is only 499 Euro/339 GBP, vs. the cost of a press sitting idle (about 300 Euro/200 GBP per hour) because a file error was found; time after time… you do the math!

Get FlightCheck Professional for each desktop of the people receiving files from your clients and make sure they stop corrupt files from entering the workflow at this stage. Not to mention that this should be the number-one tool for your PrePress department. Doing so will save your company significant time and money, as well as eliminate unnecessary stress and troubles in planning and production. FlightCheck Professional is the most important, easiest to use and least expensive tool you can own to reclaim your profits. It’s little wonder that the ROI (Return On Investment) per hour is the highest! Buy FlightCheck today and start saving!



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