Controlling Digital Interests

“The future is PDF, but neither of us is at that point yet,” agrees Ed Bacsik, general manager of Perry Judd’s Madison prepress facility. “With Acrobat 4.0, however, we believe that that will be happening this year.”

The Perry Judd’s prepress facility uses Markzware FLIGHTCHECK preflighting software and proofs created from a RIPed file to ensure the integrity of Miles Kimball’s files. It also uses Creo PreScript to optimize file performance.”PreScript rewrites the PostScript in a way which both flattens the file and reduces its size by cropping images,” Bacsik clarifies. After running FLIGHTCHECK and PreScript, Perry Judd’s RIPs the file, does virtual proofing on screen looking at the rasterized file, and pulls a hard proof for approval by Miles Kimball.