FILE PROCESSING SOLUTIONS -- Getting into the Flow

The printer charges customers for preflighting, Bacsik adds. If there is a problem with a file, then the customer has to fix it and re-submit the file for preflighting—again for a fee, he says. However, pricing incentives are offered to clients submitting PDFs.

"What's nice about PDFs is that they are compressible and travel through the production system more efficiently than a native or PostScript file—once a client knows how to generate them correctly," he continues. "To that end, we have a specification sheet we give out that lists dos and don'ts in Acrobat Distiller. In some situations, we will provide a customer with FlightCheck and set up the proper Ground Controls."