Case Study: How NEBS Brought Prepress in House

Native application files are preflighted using Markzware’s FlightCheck Professional. It verifies that the file is without flaws in resolution, color space or fonts. Those files are then fed to the NEXUS RIP, which performs an on-the-fly inspection of the DCS 2.0 file it produces.

The Premedia Services team relies on several stages of proofing for additional quality-control measures. “We do a light-table inspection of the approved laser and produce a Xerox DocuColor 12-generated digital blueline of our final DCS file before going to [a final contract] proof. These digital bluelines are produced in templates that clearly show type, safety, trim and bleed,” Apfelberg explains. “The only soft proofing we do is for content. We RIP to a PDF of the DCS 2 file, which may go to a client to approve content-only changes.”