Preflight Blog

During the preflight process, it is best to discover problems during the beginning of a job, rather than toward when the deadline of an assignment is due. It is mainly for when problems are happening with the job and sometimes the printer is able to fix these issues as well. The only problem that is occurred when having the printer fix the issue is that it costs you money to do it. An example of this would be like misspelled words, over set text, or wrong document sizes. Preflight arranges job files into one folder, plus it renames folders and preflight rebuilds image links in page layouts. I actually retrieved most this information from the Real World Print Production Book, or at least the part of the first chapter that was online.

An example of the preflight checklist would be like creating a page for the newspaper, such as the sports section because it has to go through eight steps just to make sure the page looks right and the catch the viewers eye. The eight steps the preflight checklist says that the creator is to include all fonts, include all linked images and photos, include all embedded and nested images and photos, save all image files as CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black), DCS multichannel, or gray scale, which depends on the job. The last few steps are to save the file to the correct file formate, and at the proper resolutions, set bleeds at least 1/8 inch beyond trim, verify your document size, and lastly supply laser proofs at 100% for reference. The Google site that helped me with this section of the assignment was the Premier Print Group website.

A job that would fit with the preflight subject would be like a prepress manager. They are responsible for creating plates that has the images run on the press. They do it either with chemicals or do it digitally. Prepress supervisors make a salary anywhere between $40,000 to $62,000 a year. I got this information off of the eHow Money website.

Below is one of the pictures I took at home during break and I just wanted to make sure that uploading an image would work. If you want to know what the JPS logo is toward the bottom right of the picture, it is my photography logo for my small business I just started last semester.