To improve reliability and throughput, printing companies are adopting PDF workflows over traditional PostScript workflows. PDF provides the reliable digital master for streamlined printing, smoother communication between customers and print houses, faster production, fewer errors, and higher quality output. When clients submit print jobs as composite PDF files instead of as preseparated PostScript files—where each color is in a different file— customers can make late-stage edits or design changes, and avoid costly delays that result when inaccurate files have to be returned or reworked by service providers.
The following list identifies some of the benefits of using a composite PDF workflow throughout the entire life cycle of a print production project:
• All elements of a document are within a single, self-contained file. This means that all the fonts, images, and graphics are included automatically when distributed for review, or when proofed or printed.
• Adobe PDF documents can be viewed exactly as they are intended to print. You can view with magnification power up to 6400% to see the details in illustrations and more readily find overprinting and trapping problems.
• Device-specific decisions can be made at output time by the print service provider, rather than early in the process by the designer.
• PDF files are generally smaller than their original authoring formats.
• At the appropriate time in the workflow, your service provider can either output the Adobe PDF file directly, or process it using tools from various sources for such post-processing tasks as preflight checks, trapping, imposition, and color separation.
• At print time, an Adobe PDF file can be repurposed to suit the mechanical requirements of different devices, such as page size adjustments, color reproduction characteristics, or page orientation and imposition.
* Information supplied by Adobe Systems Incorporated
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