FILE PROCESSING SOLUTIONS -- Getting into the Flow

At Kaye-Smith, preflighting was set up as an independent department to get it as far ahead as possible of the company's production workflow, says Matt Beals, preflight engineer. "We don't want to get caught by a problem on a live job when it should have been resolved at the preflight stage," he explains. "Once I finish my preflighting, the job is turned back over to the salesperson, who then submits it through our order-entry process. Only then does a file become a live production job."