Workflow Builder

Using preflight as a filter

To help alleviate prepress bottlenecks, you can set up preflight nodes at various points in a workflow to automatically check for specific conditions, for example:

Color or black and white

Specific page size

Portrait or landscape orientation

Depending on whether the files pass or fail the check, they are automatically directed to the appropriate workflow node or branch.

Table 2-13. Examples: Using preflight as a filter

To check for...

Pass/Fail results

 

 

Embedded fonts, legitimate fonts,

If passes, then go to next node.

and other basic preflight

If fails, then check the preflight

requirements.

Purpose: To perform initial

report, fix, and resubmit.

 

sorting of submitted customer

 

files.

 

 

 

Pages 12 x 18 or larger

If passes, then send to printer A,

Purpose: To sort files with large

which handles large format jobs.

If fails, then send to the fail

page dimensions from those with

small dimensions.

branch for printer B, which

 

handles small format jobs.

 

 

Color or black and white files

If color, the file passes; send it to

Purpose: To sort files into black

Color Manage, and then to the

color printer A.

and white and color.

If b&w, the file fails; send it to the

 

 

fail branch for b&w printer B.

 

 

Tips for using Preflight as a filter

Begin the workflow with a general preflight profile that checks for legitimate fonts and/or other basic requirements.

Continue filtering with one-rule profiles that check for specific conditions.

Use as many one-rule preflight profiles as necessary to filter and direct the jobs to the appropriate node or workflow branch.

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