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Our Quality Process

Our Prepress Quality Checklist

  • Text and image safety check
  • Bleed and cut line check
  • Size compatibility
  • 300 DPI resolution
  • Border check
  • Correct color mode
  • Removal of double crop marks
  • Removal of holding lines
  • Conversion to rich black
  • Dropout check
  • Watermark removal
  • Image rights check
  • Orientation check
  • Perforation and score safety check
  • Hole and drill placement check
  • Indicia confirmation
  • Mailing area guidelines
  • Image centering
  • .FPO file check
  • Reduction of 400% ink coverage

How We Keep Print Quality High

A quality checklist is essential for digital and offset printing, but good results also depend on how your artwork is prepared before it reaches us. Along with our 20-point checklist, these steps help you get sharp, accurate prints.

Export Print-Ready Artwork

Whatever design software you use, such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or CorelDraw, export your files the way offset and digital presses expect. A prepress checklist for designers should include software-specific steps.

Checklists for Preparing Print-Ready Files

  • Illustrator printing checklist
  • Photoshop printing checklist
  • CorelDraw PDF printing guide

Preflight and Prepress Are Different Steps

Preflight

Preflight checks a job for technical errors such as font conflicts and missing linked graphics, usually with preflight software. It is one part of the wider prepress process.

Prepress

Prepress covers the steps a printer takes to get artwork ready for press, including typesetting, color correction, production planning, preflight, proofing and plating.

Preflight checks file quality, while prepress prepares the artwork for printing. Custom Value Boxes combines a prepress preflight checklist with a full print preproduction checklist. You can usually export in your native format, but a high-quality PDF is the safest choice.