“While the brand agencies and designers tend to look after the art of a printed piece, prepress operators look after the science – the layout, plates, tooling, and processes for the job,” says Ben Richardson, senior DFE specialist, Mark Andy UK. “Prepress operators take a beautiful piece of art and apply the technical setup that is required for the given print process in which they are experts.”
Hybrid Software, for example, offers a complete set of software, from preflighting to file preparation, to proofing and collaboration/approvals, to delivering PDF files to a digital printer or traditional press. Hybrid Software has recently released PACKZ and the STEPZ 8.5 PDF editing software.
“Perhaps the most intriguing feature of PACKZ 8.5 is a powerful new feature called Content