Who should complete this activity

• Prepress operators who are working with Prinergy Evo systems that are licensed for Advanced PDF Preflight
• Prepress managers who are working with Prinergy Evo systems that are licensed for Advanced PDF Preflight

Why you should complete this activity

Preflighting evaluates whether all requirements for a printing job are met. Prinergy Evo software provides you with two preflight options: Standard and Advanced.

• Standard PDF Preflight support enables you to set a standard, basic set of preflight conditions on the input files so that they are optimally output. You can set up standard preflight parameters in the PDF Preflight section of the refine to PDF process template dialog box.
• Advanced PDF Preflight support enables you to set finer and more specific sets of conditions for preflight to look for. Therefore, if you know that you always run into certain problems with particular file types or files from a specific customer, you can configure those conditions in the Preflight Profile Editor.

Recommended reading

In the Prinergy Evo Workflow Client user guide for your version of Prinergy Evo Workflow software, search for:

• Tell me more about PDF Preflight
• Using PDF Preflight in Prinergy Evo

Time required to complete this activity

30 minutes

What you'll learn

• How Prinergy Evo preflight profiles can identify and fix potential problems with supplied input files

• How to edit preflight profile settings

• How to submit files for preflight via process templates in the Template Browser feature

• How to use preflight reports to view potential and fixed problems with supplied files

What you'll need

• For this activity, you must have access to an installed and configured Prinergy Evo system that is licensed for Advanced PDF Preflight
• The Prinergy Evo plug-ins to Acrobat software must be installed
• You will need sample input files for refined digital master PDF files. If needed, you can use the EvoITP_Fat.ps file found in the location to which you extracted the activity files, in the ITP Files\Input Files folder.

What you'll do

• Determine the settings that will be most useful in preflight profiles used in your own working environment

• Create a Prinergy Evo PDF Preflight profile

• Apply the new preflight profile in a refine process template

• Refine an input file using the new process template
• Review the preflight report for each refined page
• Decide who in your working environment will review preflight profiles
• Determine the benefits and limitations of PDF preflight for your working environment