What is Prepress?

Prepress or pre-flighting is the first step in the production process of your project. Once we receive your digital artwork, our prepress team will review the artwork to ensure it meets our production requirements. This includes reviewing the format, resolution, ink set ups (CMYK or PMS) and additional layout elements such as bleeds, crop marks and margins.

Once the artwork is print ready, our prepress team will create proofs. We create PDF proofs and press proofs for each project. You can review and approve whichever proofs you prefer; however, we do require approval before we start printing. Once approved, the project will be put into production. Offset projects will be plated before printing and digital projects will be sent directly to our HP Indigo 7900 Press to begin printing.

Champ’s Prepress Capabilities

You’ve worked hard designing your project and you want the quality of the printing to reflect that! Therefore, it is important to work with professionals, such as Champ Printing, for your commercial printing needs. Each of our prepress professionals have over 25 years of experience and have set up over 250,000 projects to print! 

As a G7 Master Facility, our team has been trained and our equipment has been calibrated to produce consistent, high-quality and color accurate appearances across all prepress and print production equipment, stocks and substrates within our facility.  This ensures consistency in in our proofing, brand color management and print processes. 

From prepress and printing to finishing and delivery, our entire team takes great pride in providing a high-quality, beautifully finished piece that we are all proud of.