FlightCheck

Adobe InDesigns built in collection feature is great, and if all you need to do is collect jobs then InDesign will do that for you. As a matter of fact, InDesign even includes basic preflighting. However, FlightCheck Professional does is MUCH more than just collecting the job. FlightCheck performs deep, extensive and customizable preflighting to make sure that your document is READY TO PRINT. As well, FlightCheck then collects all your images, fonts and other files so that you are ensured all your InDesign documents will be print ready. FlightCheck Professional is a kind of insurance that allows you to rest easy - so that you will get what you expect. If your requirements are to simply use the Adobe(r) collection feather, then preflighting may not be very important to you. Professional print companies want the high-quality, print-ready documents, which FlightCheck ensures. Whenever jobs are sent to professional print shops without preflighting a series of miscommunications occur. The printshop then has to go back and forth, often several times to the customer getting the file to print correctly. Or worse yet, the job has already been printed with errors the customer notices after-the-fact. Everyone in the print workflow, from designer to printer has a responsibility to make sure that problems do not materialize within the final product. A single bad print job will can easily exceed the mere $500 cost of FlightCheck Professional.