Upload a packaging PDF. Get back a prioritized report with plain-language fixes you can act on. Built for printers, designers, sales reps, and brand teams who don't want another reprint on their watch.
5 free preflights · No account · No credit card
This is what your team sees. Real findings, real fix instructions, generated in minutes from any packaging PDF you upload.
Press "Run Demo Preflight" below to see a sample report.
This demo uses a simulated file. Upload your own artwork at preflight.art/tool to see your actual report.
Every print method and substrate has its own rules. Preflight ships with purpose-built profiles for digital labels, flexo labels, flexible packaging, and folding cartons.
Preflight doesn't just flag low resolution and missing bleed. It understands the structure of your artwork: reading callout text, tracing die paths, computing finished dimensions from first principles, the same way a prepress operator would.
"After years in packaging sales, one thing always stood out to me: the knowledge in pre-press is deep, but it almost never reaches the customer in a way they can actually use. We built Preflight to change that. To bridge the gap between what's happening on the production floor and what the sales team can relay to a customer with confidence.
The tools to catch these problems have always existed. They just weren't built for the people who needed them most: the sales reps, the CSRs, the small shops without a dedicated preflight operator. That's the gap Preflight was built to close."
Spot color name, overprint, custom-shape ArtBox support, hairline path detection, alias matching. Flags what your output device sees before it's too late.
Spot color naming and suffix-convention checks, CMYK-derived spot detection, per-profile suffix rules, white ink layer verification, across all packaging types.
Per-side bleed in inches, profile minimums, label dimensions vs. sheet size, including custom die shapes from ArtBox.
Embedding status, missing font detection, minimum point sizes for positive and reverse text by print method.
DPI per image, thresholds by print method (flexo, digital, offset), raster vs. vector classification.
TAC by profile (280% flexo / 350% digital), overprint detection, trapping verification for flexographic printing.
GS1 check digit validation, quiet zone, magnification, vector vs. raster, 100% K check. Optical barcode decoding, live.
Underbase spot color presence and naming for reverse printing on clear, white, or foil substrates.
Run your real production files free, upgrade to a seat when you need volume, or connect Preflight straight into your prepress workflow.
Questions? hello@preflight.art
The Enterprise plan connects preflight to your MIS and prepress systems, so every incoming packaging file is verified automatically as it arrives. The same workflow integration as the enterprise systems, delivered as a subscription, with a guided setup instead of a multi-month deployment.
Three side-by-side comparisons against the major preflight tools. Price, deployment, packaging coverage, and what an AI cross-validation layer actually gets you over a pure rule engine.
PitStop is the print industry's default PDF preflight tool, an Acrobat plug-in built for general PDF work. We're packaging-native, browser-based, and add an AI cross-validation layer no rule engine can match.
Read the comparison → vs CallaspdfToolbox is a developer-grade rule engine that powers Acrobat's built-in preflight. We ship packaging-tuned profiles out of the box and add an AI cross-check pure rule engines structurally cannot do.
Read the comparison → vs EskoEsko is the enterprise standard for $200M+ converters. We're the mid-market alternative for $5M to $50M converters and brand production teams. Packaging-native, focused on preflight, $49.99 per seat.
Read the comparison →No. Your first 5 preflights need no account and no payment details. A card is only needed if you subscribe to the paid plan.
No. Your first 5 preflights run without an account. When you are ready for more, you create an account and subscribe. Takes about 30 seconds.
Your first 5 preflights are free and need no account. After that, you create an account and subscribe to keep running. We never auto-charge anyone. The paid plan is $49.99/month per seat and auto-renews monthly until you cancel.
PDF, Adobe Illustrator (.ai), and EPS files, including artwork exported from Illustrator, InDesign, ArtiosCAD, and most other prepress tools. Files up to 75 MB.
Each print method has its own rules: bleed minimums, allowable ink coverage, dieline conventions. Preflight runs a different rule set per profile. All four are live on the tool today. Digital labels is our production profile; flexo labels, flexible packaging, and folding cartons are in public beta, so reports on those formats are still being refined.
No, and we don't try to. Many customers run Preflight alongside their existing enterprise prepress software as a fast first-pass filter that anyone on the team can use before a file reaches a trained prepress operator. For teams without enterprise prepress software, Preflight stands on its own.
Yes. Our enterprise tier covers company-wide access plus an API for integrating Preflight into your existing prepress workflow. Contact hello@preflight.art to discuss.
Every report includes a correction UI. You can flag the wrong reading directly in the report, and we use that feedback to calibrate future runs. Reports are framed as advisory, not a substitute for prepress judgment.
Preflight is built by Michael Bolland, a former packaging sales rep who spent years watching files bounce between designers, CSRs, and prepress. The product is what he wishes had existed back then.
Your files are encrypted both during upload and while we store them, tied to your account, and accessible only to you. You can delete your account, and every file and report with it, at any time from your account settings. Technical detail lives on our security page.