Adobe Creative Cloud tools help turn your brightest ideas into your most excellent work. You may have broken new ground with a new feature from the latest update of Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop and pushed the envelope beyond anything you have done before. After applying the finishing touches and obtaining approval, it's time to send your design to the printer. Whether you are designing a package or a brochure, it is critical that the final product accurately reflects your creative vision.
The prepress department at your printer will carefully examine your job's structure. Accurately reproducing your design on a printing press requires specialised skills and techniques. The prepress function consists of a series of stages, of which rendering is the most critical. Your design's text, graphics and images will be broken down into atomic elements. Transparency, knockouts and other complex effects will be reduced and simplified. Your rich palette of carefully selected hues will be funneled into several separated printing colourants, each of which will be screened into halftone dots. The rendering stage performs these operations at high speed, producing billions of pixels in a continuous stream and instructing the inkjet heads or laser beams, when and where the colour will be applied to the substrate.
Adobe PDF Print Engine, a cutting-edge rendering technology, is integrated into prepress solutions by top graphic arts manufacturers. It leverages the same core technologies as Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Adobe Express. This significantly reduces the likelihood of discrepancies and enhances predictability: What you see on-screen is what you will get when ink meets paper.
If your printer is powered by Adobe PDF Print Engine, you can be confident that your artistic vision will be printed as expected, without any unexpected surprises.
