Fiery Preflight

Use the Fiery Preflight module to check a job for errors before printing. This reduces costly printing errors. Fiery 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.

Fiery Preflight uses a Fiery Preflight preset to check a job for errors before printing. Fiery JobFlow detects and displays all preflight presets available on the Fiery server designated as the output device. If no presets have been configured, the default preset will be displayed.

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

Fiery Preflight settings can be saved as a preset. Configure Fiery Preflight presets in Command WorkStation to specify which categories of errors to check and how errors are reported. All presets configured on the Fiery server you are connected to are displayed in Fiery JobFlow.

The following file formats are supported for Fiery Preflight: PostScript, PDF, EPS.

TIFF and PCL file formats are not supported for Fiery Preflight.

Fiery Preflight can check for the following categories of errors:

Fonts - Missing fonts and Courier font substitution.
Spot Colors - Missing spot colors. You can add missing spot colors in Command WorkStation Spot Colors.
Image Resolution - Image resolution less than a specified value.
Hairlines - Line thickness less than a specified value.
Overprint - Overprint.
PostScript - PostScript errors.

Note: If a job errors because of a Fiery Preflight error, you can choose to override the error if the job is a rush job or the error is not important enough to stop output. The job will be displayed in the Error Jobs pane of the Jobs tab in the Fiery JobFlow window. Click Override to override the error and complete the job. The Override option is not displayed if a Move or Copy rule was defined for the module. The Override option is also available for the Correct and Preflight modules with the same limitation.