You can use the Preflight feature to check a job before printing, to reduce costly printing errors. Preflight checks the most common areas of error to ensure that a job will print successfully and to the expected quality on the selected printer.

Preflight generates a report of errors as well as information about the job, including security settings, page size, and color spaces.

Preflight checking can be enabled in Hot Folders and Virtual Printers as well as in Command WorkStation.

The following file formats are supported for Preflight: PostScript, PDF, EPS, PPML, Creo VPS, and PDF/VT.

TIFF and PCL file formats are not supported for Preflight.

Preflight can check for the following categories of errors:

• Fonts - Checks for missing fonts and Courier font substitution.

• Spot Colors - Checks for missing spot colors. You can add missing spot colors in Command WorkStation Spot Colors.

• Image Resolution - Checks for image resolution less than a specified value.

• VDP Resources - Checks for missing VDP resources. You can specify the number of records to check, to prevent a potentially long processing time.

• Hairlines - Checks for line thickness less than a specified value.

• Overprint - Checks for overprint.

• PostScript - Checks for PostScript errors.

You can configure Preflight to specify which categories of errors to check and how errors are reported. Preflight configuration settings can be saved as a preset, which allows you to quickly select a Preflight configuration for a particular job.