Other preflighting tools have subsequently been introduced, mainly focusing on PDF preflighting. Patent, number 5,963,641 was subsequently granted - ‘Device and method for examining, verifying, correcting and approving electronic documents prior to printing, transmission or recording.’ The first commercial preflight application, called "FlightCheck," was introduced to the public by Markzware and appeared at the Seybold Seminars Conference at San Francisco in the Fall of 1995. This stand-alone application, FlightCheck 2022, provides full file information and quality assurance reporting.
It preflights a wide variety of print and online file formats, and also packages the job. There were some early postscript RIPs that interpreted data and provided a preflight report of sorts. FlightCheck has long been the go-to application for prepress and desktop publishing pros alike. The term preflight was first used during a presentation in 1990 by Chuck Weger, a well known industry consultant. Preflight may be done on the source desktop publishing document, or before creating a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. It is a way to check quality before printing, digitally or otherwise, but can also be used to check any common artwork file. Preflight in the graphic arts industry is the process of checking a digital document before it goes to plate, print or otherwise output (exported - such as to PDF). ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įlightCheck is a stand-alone application that performs preflight quality control inspection on many common file types such as Adobe InDesign, PageMaker, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress and PDF. JSTOR ( March 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline.
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