Preflighting: My First Post!

Hello my name is Brett Robert Baker and this my blog site! To start this new venture off, I will first be explaining the Pre-flight Process as well as give an example of a Preflight checklist. I will also be covering a job description and a salary range.  First off, after perusing Google for a website that appropriately explained the Preflight process, I settled on the site http://www.printernational.org. This site explained the Preflight process for Indesign. In essence, the purpose of Preflight is the means to check all the files used in a document and to double check if anything has gone missing, been changed, etc. within the file.

For  a Preflight checklist on Indesign, the checklist it goes through besides the aforementioned above is the types of fonts the package is to be printed in as well as making sure the bleed is correct and making sure the size is formatted for the printer. Other things to check for in Preflight are making sure your PMS colors are separated from your CMYK (or vice versa), exporting correct registration marks, making sure the image resolution is the right size so the image will not be blurry or pixelated and making sure the overall document is the size you want before exporting it to print.

A job that has resonance with the topic of this post is the job title of Print Production specialist, a job that offers anywhere between 30k-70k yearly. The type of work this job entails consists of meeting or exceeding sales requirements as well as offering sales expertise and advice.  Information was obtained from both careerbuilder.com as well as glassdoor.com.

Hope this gives some good insight into the purpose of Preflight and provided some helpful examples of how a preflight checklist is made and exemplified well certain jobs and salaries in the field of Preflight.

-BRB-