Your ad files checked
before they cost you.
Upload any print ad PDF and receive a comprehensive preflight report in about 90 seconds per file — catching color, resolution, bleed, font, and ink issues before they reach press.
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One bad ad file can derail your entire issue.
Magazine publishers receive ad files from dozens of advertisers every issue — and almost none of them have a dedicated prepress team checking files before submission. RGB files, missing bleeds, unembedded fonts, and low-resolution images are caught at press time, when it's too late and expensive.
Preflight every ad file before it goes to press.
PrintAdPreflight runs the same checks a seasoned prepress technician would run — in about 90 seconds per file, at $10 per file. Send the report to your advertiser's designer with plain-English fix instructions. No technical knowledge required on either end.
Three steps. Under two minutes.
Everything a prepress pro looks for.
Thirty-five years on the receiving end of other people's files.
I spent most of my career in prepress at commercial shops, large and small. Long enough to know the problems don't change — only the software that lets you make them without a word of warning.
RGB art in a CMYK job. A logo pulled off a website at 72 dpi that has to run three inches. Fonts not embedded. Eight-point type built out of four colors, going soft because a web press doesn't hold register. Four hundred percent ink on newsprint that was never going to dry.
None of it is hard to fix. It's hard to catch — because the person who can see the problem usually isn't the person who can fix it, and by the time the file reaches them it's four hours to deadline.
That's the gap this is built for. PrintAdPreflight writes the fixes in plain English, so the report can go straight back to the advertiser's designer instead of someone in production having to translate prepress-speak.
It's early. I'm as interested in hearing what it misses as in selling it — if you run production somewhere and want to throw a few genuinely bad files at it, I'd like that a lot.
Pay only for what you use.
No monthly fees. No account required. Pay per file or grab a pack for your whole issue.
Leave your address instead.
Most people who find this page don't have a problem file in front of them at that exact moment. Leave an address and I'll send one note when there's something worth telling you — a new check, or a fix to something it got wrong. No newsletter, no sequence.
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