Prepress Checklist - Care to share yours?

[chevalier]

I've been tasked with updating/revising our preflight and plating checklists/procedures. I thought it would be useful and interesting to get a conversation going in this area and to compare what others are doing. Care to share yours?

 

[Al Ferrari]

A very poorly thought out thread starter. Where are your preflight and plating checklists/procedures?

Al

 

[rich apollo]

First files went into a hot folder for color conversion based on the paper type to be printed on. This took care of spot color separations, RGB imagery, L*a*b* color definitions, et cetera. Then we ran everything through a little Acrobat Preflight that ensured that the fonts were embedded and that forced all white elements to knockout.

PitStop's new version has some tools that will make checking margins a do-able thing.

To check document size(s) (never correct) would require a zillion preflight profiles. I'm hoping that Adobe and/or PitStop will put together a preflight pathway that would bring up a dialogue to input certain parameters - like page size, page count, separations, et cetera.