Job Prep Challenges: File Prep

Job File Inconsistencies

• Design applications and file formats produce different output results
• Opening files in different tools changes the job files
• Mac vs. PC files and workflow conflicts
  

Problem PDF Files

• Typos, fonts problems, last minute changes by the customer
• Last-minute updating and correcting images and graphics
• Files RIP incorrectly (transparencies, overprints, gradients, drop shadows)

Because of its complete PDF editing toolset, PrepEdge Pro can help you solve these problems fast.

Job Prep Challenges: Finishing

• Setting up overlaps and bleeds
• Marking grommets and cut marks
• Labeling job tiles and communicating finishing needs

With tools that prepare jobs for finishing, PrepEdge makes finishing easier and faster

Job Prep Challenges: Color

• Meeting Overall Customer Color Expectations
• Not knowing what colorspace to use
• Object color correction
• Knowing what the color will be before printing
• Matching Spot Colors
• Matching industry-standard colors (PANTONE(r), RAL, Avery etc.
• Verifying spot colors in files
• Quickly correcting spot colors in files

You may have separate tools today to address some or all of these challenges, but PrepEdge Pro has all of the tools in one place, with the spot color libraries you need to quickly get the color right on every job prior to production.

Job Prep Challenges: Cutting

• Creating contour paths
• Previewing and verifying cut paths are correct
• Automating the print-to-cut process

PrepEdge has contour cutting prep tools that can dramatically reduce the time it takes to prepare cuts jobs. They are also easier to use for prepress operators that are not professional designers.

Job Prep Challenges: Tiling

Time consuming, especially for multiple jobs

• Complicated
• Problems in handoff between what is needed and what is printed

If you're currently tiling jobs using design applications, there is a better way with PrepEdge, because it has a tiling tool and template feature specifically designed for fast wide-format production. If you're using RIP software for tiling, it may not work with all of your printers. Shops with PrepEdge can take on the complex tiled jobs with ease, and turn them around quicker than shops without PrepEdge.