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In order to try to make a guess about the future, one must know and understand the past. Preflight has already undergone a transformation. I want to briefly describe what were the milestones of Preflight and draw some conclusions based on these.

In traditional preflighting, customer files are analyzed for resolution, font embedding, color spaces, hairlines or number of elements/pages to prevent non-printable files from entering production. Users can define their own criteria for what is printable and what is not.

Since 2000, I've been working daily with OneVision products, both the prepress and workflow automation solutions along with the Solvero file editor. The clear trend is that more and more routine work is being automated. In the beginning, even with the automatic solution, in our case the Prepress Suite "Asura" - it was still common for the delivered customer files to be copied by a person into a...

For print production both the production file and the order data (color, number of copies, format, possibly finishing, ...) are required. All order data is stored in one system. "System" is an elastic term and ranges from simple MS Excel forms to complex MIS solutions or web shops to SAP-controlled organizations.