Preflighting Jobs

Preflight (or quality control) of both ingoing and outgoing jobs is crucial to a smooth automated workflow. SWITCH supports a number of configurators that allow you to integrate preflighting technologies into flows.

Required tools
SWITCH		This task requires FullSWITCH or PowerSWITCH.
Other tools	Additional tools are necessary to implement this task. SWITCH supports a number of tools that can be used to preflight jobs: callas pdfInspektor DevZeroG PrintSure Enfocus PitStop Server Markzware FlightCheck Professional
Time savings
The ROI calculation assumes this task will be used for all jobs, and that 3 minutes are saved per processed job.

More Information

It is a best practice in workflows to make sure of the quality of incoming and outgoing jobs by preflighting them. With its configurators, SWITCH supports a number of different automated preflight tools.

Example Flows

The following flows present examples of how jobs can be preflighted:

• Preflight jobs with callas pdfInspektor
• Preflight jobs with Markzware FlightCheck Professional
• Create PDF files and preflight them using Enfocus PitStop Server
• Create HTML preflight report using PitStop Server
• Let specific operators handle preflight reports
• Log preflight reports in a database
• Preflight jobs with DevZeroG PrintSure
• Use a preflight profile dependant on metadata in the job (PowerSWITCH only)
• Sort jobs in different folders based on an XML preflight report (PowerSWITCH only)