You still see vector formats such as AI (Illustrator native) CDR (CorelDraw native) and EPS (an output option for many sign programs). PDF is now the most common file delivery format, although in wide format it’s not universal. Other common problems are missing fonts, spot colours instead of CMYK values, RGB instead of CMYK, unprintable hairlines, transparency problems, drop shadows not appearing as they should, and layer orders going wrong. Competition and price pressure makes them rethink that I think.”ĭavid Dilling, managing director of pre-flight developer Markzware explains: “Obviously, the larger the printer, the costlier the error. It's pretty much all manual and job-by-job. But I also think the reason it looks like a big trend right now is because in that market you haven't had much of that going on over the last ten years. “Standardisation and preflight and automation are becoming more important in that market. Suppliers of pre-flighting report that wide format and packaging are their fastest-growing sales areas, though that could be because general commercial and publishing markets are now pretty mature.Īccording to David van Driessche, chief technical officer of Four Pees, a Belgium based developer and distributor of pre-press workflow systems: “Large format is more and more important for us - we see it with callas pdfToolbox, we see it with tFlow Approval – we see some of those aspects with the Creative Edge 3D visualisation tools. Large format printers are therefore increasingly using pre-flight programs that can automatically pick up content or format problems before they screw up anything expensive. Letting mistakes and bad files get through to print is obviously expensive and leads to issues of who pays - customer or (sadly often) the printer who doesn’t want to lose further business by kicking up a fuss. This gave the opportunity to query it with the customer, or if the solution was obvious the pre-press operators would usually fix it.Īs wide format digital printers increasingly follow commercial printers down the automated workflow paths, it’s technically feasible for a customer file received by a printing company to be processed completely automatically to the point where the first time it’s seen by human eyes is as it emerges from an inkjet printer. In the good old days, customer jobs submitted for print would go through so many human-overseen stages at the camera, plate and screen stages that any problems would be noticed early on. Printers know, at least in theory, that powerful preflight checking software will increase production efficiency in the workflow. Get our Newsletter Straight to Your InboxĮxplore FESPA's global portfolio of events, exhibitions and conferences aimed at the international print trade.Changing the Future for Sustainable Cotton with Graham Stewart of Fiber52.Zünd to demonstrate digital cutting automation at FESPA 2023 in Munich.Kornit’s 2021 Impact Report for Environmental, Social and Corporate (ESG) governance.Personalisation with Mark Gervais from Ningbo Shenzhou Knitting Co Ltd.Read from the experts about the latest printing news, varying from screen and digital printing, laser cutters, printing inks, packaging and more.
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