About

We've experienced this pain first hand.

Checking an art file has largely remained a manual process, passed between multiple people with varying levels of understanding of art file setup. We started Preflight after experiencing the production delays and reprints that a manual process can cause.

Michael Bolland, founder of Preflight.art
Michael Bolland
Founder

Where it started

We started Preflight from inside the problem.

Our founder, Michael Bolland, comes from print packaging and manufacturing, on the sales and marketing side of flexographic and digital printing.

That put him between prepress and the customer, on both ends of the same art file problem. The idea for Preflight came directly out of that experience.

Why it exists

Everyone in the ordering process has a different pain point.

Prepress
Every file has to be checked, one at a time.
Sales and CSRs
Waiting on a check before the job can be quoted, then retyping the feedback for the buyer.
The buyer
Sent the file believing it was ready. Feedback comes back late and in prepress terms, after the timeline has already moved.

And reprints don't just cost money. They can cost you the customer.

What we aim to do

Prepress knowledge, for everyone in the ordering process.

We give everyone in the ordering process the same prepress knowledge and understanding, as plain language findings with how-to-fix information attached.

And we automate art file intake into a more efficient, streamlined system that print manufacturers can implement, so prepress departments can focus on higher level objectives.

Let Preflight be your second set of eyes on every file.

Michael Bolland, Founder

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