Advancements in Preflighting--Ensuring All Documents

Files are viewed in Adobe Photoshop with the use of the ViewIt plug-in included in Flight Simulator. In conjunction with ImpoPlan, Ultimate's imposition planning tool, Flight Simulator allows for preplanning and testing of the digital stripping process.

"We are incorporating preflighting into our process of manipulating the file," reports Jerry Huffman, Ultimate's vice president of product development. "We put preflighting in trapping, preflighting in imposition—we want to change the way preflighting is perceived. As it stands today, preflighting still allows users to make mistakes, then tells them about those mistakes within a document."