Overview

Smart Preflight is a new functionality that enables PitStop Server customers to improve the quality of their PDF preflight and correction, reduce the amount of Preflight Profiles they require and increase the efficiency of their PitStop Server installation by improved automation.

Smart Preflight does this by allowing preflight settings to be driven from an XML/JDF job. This means job specific settings and corrections such as page trim size, inks, output intent or others can be automatically set on a job-by-job basis. In addition, conditional variables can be defined allowing more complex decision making to be applied to settings making PitStop Server a truly smart preflight solution.

In Switch, if you have licensed the Configurator module and are using the PitStop Server configurator in a flow, you can now use the variables and the Smart Preflight feature.

Following are a couple examples of how Smart Preflight can be used within PitStop Server configurator:

Trim Page Size: Trim page size (height and width) checks can be automatically adjusted to match the current job specifications from the XML/JDF job.
Conditional changes based on job type: Output intent, such as "offset", or "digital" printing can be used to determine the number of colors allowed for a job, and/or adjust total ink coverage as needed.