Today, we are with Mr. Ocheda, in our continuous effort to
show FlightCheck uses to you and to help you to make a right decision,
of course,
to take FlightCheck in your workflow and to make sure that all your files that
you want to send over to somebody else
will be okay, take your own control of your files, and use FlightCheck.
As I said, today, we're in Heerhugowaard, the Netherlands,
talking to Mr. Ocheda
in his company
to see
how he uses FlightCheck in his workflow and in his daily work.
Maybe you can tell us
what you are, why you are doing it, and how you're doing it.
Yes. I'm Valentin Ocheda.
I'm working mainly for the entertainment business.
I make CD covers, DVD covers,
or advertising
displays,
all about music.
I use Quark, because it's a solid piece of
pigment, the same as
FlightCheck.
I also work with InDesign, but I prefer Quark.
If I make it for advertising, or an advert,
or a CD cover, or a DVD cover,
it's very important
that the file size
previews are correct.
I work alone,
so, if
there's a mistake,
I'm the only one... You're the only one to blame. I'm the only one to blame.
I always work in CMYK.
I always make my
picture files
EPS,
and so on.
So, before I'm going to design,
I have a certain workflow that
is very solid
from its own. It's tested. It's tested. And it works.
I don't work with JPEGs or PNG files, or something, only with EPS.
That is... That is the upside of working alone, I guess. Yes.
You can make everything the way you like it
and it's always correct,
because that's the way you do it. Exactly.
But when I am finished with a project and I have to deliver
open source files to... to my customer,
or to the printing factory,
I use FlightCheck. Do you send out the open file, or do you send PDFs?
Both. Okay.
We send PDF files
that are certified,
but also the open source file for...
last-minute correction. For last-minute correction,
or if something there will go wrong. That's why I ask, because
a lot of people these days say, "No, I only send PDF."
But then,
they might get in a lot of trouble, especially when there's a small error,
or maybe a big error,
and maybe a last-minute change that comes through,
and that gives them a lot of trouble,
because they didn't send the open file.
That's why we always like to ask to...
to customers like you. What do you send?
Now, for instance, if I make a CD cover,
or a DVD cover,
it's always a certified PDF,
and open-source.
The factory uses only the certified PDF
to make the output files.
Okay. And the open source is just for back-up.
If I make an advert,
then I only send
the certified PDF,
because you can't email open source files. It's just too... too heavy and too big.
But for DVD covers and CDs, I always send the open files, as well.
Yeah. Mainly, you created your Ground Control sets. Yes.
You did that in the past somewhere.
I only need to do it once, so, in the background, as always,
there's the Ground Controls. These are my Ground Controls.
Okay, so we have...
Just set the things you don't want in the file. Hmm-hmm.
It's a little bit opposite.
I don't want JPEG. I don't want CT files. I don't want GIFs. Hmm-hmm.
I don't want Tritones, Quadtones, RGB colors.
Yeah. It's very easy to do.
Yeah. It's a one-time thing. It's a one-time thing. Yeah.
I can lock it. Yeah. Like that.
Lock it with a password, if you like. You can send it out to customers who,
in your case, you're working alone,
but imagine that you are a printer.
You make your settings for your company.
You can send them out to designers or whoever.
They can import it and they can work with the settings then.
Yes. It's... it's very easy to use
and you don't have to be afraid
when you check something,
or, if it's unchecked, that your...
"your file is completely wrong" is not the case.
FlightCheck
has those controls.
It's good with
...
You can collect it.
I'll collect the file.
And that makes sure that all the elements that you used in your documents are now
collected into one folder.
Yes, in one folder.
I make the folder on my desktop with...
it's called FlightCheck.
All the FlightCheck files are transported
with this app,
so I don't have to sift through
any more.
I open it. It's there. It's there.
The fonts,
only one font this time,
and images are there.
Great.
Now, almost ready to deliver, because I want to StuffIt,
and when it's ready, I'm going to send it
by FTP or OneNet or whatever.
And, basically, the only reason that you don't StuffIt with
FlightCheck is because you have to add the PDF to the whole folder.
Yes. Yes, and this time it's only one document, but if I have...
I'll show you here.
If I have a CD cover, I've got, not only the booklet, but also the tray,
and sometimes,
five CD labels. That's all... all separate files,
so, I want to make one package. One package. One package.
Collect it all and then
stuff it later.
That's why I don't StuffIt with FlightCheck,
but you can do it, if you like.
The big importance for you, for FlightCheck: What...
What do you gain from
checking your files with FlightCheck?
Do you find errors? Do you save money?
Do you... ?
The errors. I can find some errors.
They're mainly
of image files
that customers are delivering to me.
For example, the advert for Metallica.
All the little CD covers... Hmm-hmm.
... are delivered to me.
If I'm...
When I open them... the fonts... and I transfer
or save it as an EPS file,
but I can overlook the one file or something,
and FlightCheck is warning me,
hey, there's still one
RGB or JPEG file
in my document. And that's good, because
you are working alone
and that's what we hear a lot of time, as an argument from designers,
"Now, I don't need FlightCheck, because I do everything myself."
Yes. But nobody...
Everybody makes mistakes.
I mean, that's for sure.
And what I would say is
it's like reading
the text that you wrote,
and you will
you will not see the errors that you made. If somebody else reads that same text,
you will always find something. And that is, basically, what FlightCheck does for you.
It checks whatever you are doing. I'm a designer and I want to design.
I don't want to collect my... my artwork.
That's not my main business.
You have to do it,
so let's do it quick and easy, and
FlightCheck never has disappointed me.
I've never seen FlightCheck
collect something and get much wrong.
Hmm-hmm. So, you
bought FlightCheck for 500 Euros
Yes.
What does it bring you?
A lot of...
I save time.
I save mistakes
and that's why I save money,
and not only in the first year, when I bought FlightCheck,
but benefits are more than 500 Euros.
Return on investment and all that. Yes, return on investment. Yes.
It was good.
It was good enough. You had it back or more. More. More. Okay.
That's good to know.
Because when I collect my job,
I can design
again
very fair... very fast.
and I don't have to worry about
things about that project. It's FlightChecked.
It's stuffed this way. It's good.
Well, thank you very much for this, for explaining how you use FlightCheck
and other Markzware tools in your workflow or in your daily work.
As always, we like to thank you with
some information and, of course, the
all-time Markzware T-shirt
"Create, Convert, Preflight and Print"
That's for you. And, of course, for the people watching, if you have a Markzware product
that you want to make a movie about,
please tape it, send it out to us, and you get a free t-shirt, too!
Thank you very much!