Print-ready PDF output is the difference between "this needs prepress work" and "this goes straight to the press." Generic personalizers ship RGB JPEGs and assume your prepress team will fix them. PrintIntegrator ships PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4 with the bleed, fonts, profiles, and color conversion already done.
This is the most mundane feature and the most important. Every minute your prepress team spends fixing customer files is margin you cannot get back.
What the output includes
- PDF/X-1a (flattened) or PDF/X-4 (transparency-preserved) — configurable per product
- Bleed at the dimension your press requires (typically 3mm or 0.125 inch)
- Embedded subset fonts (no font missing from the press RIP)
- CMYK conversion through the ICC profile you configure (FOGRA39, GRACoL, US SWOP, etc.)
- Spot colors preserved as separations when configured
- Cropmarks and color bars when your press needs them
- Imposition by request — single-up, ganged-up, step-and-repeat for label rolls
ICC profile management
You configure an ICC profile per product, or per substrate. Customer uploads in RGB or sRGB convert to the target profile cleanly. Customer uploads already in CMYK get re-profiled to your target only if the source and target differ.
Preflight that runs first
The print-ready output ships after preflight has passed. If preflight catches an issue — image below required DPI, font that won't embed, color out of gamut — the customer sees the warning before they pay. Files do not arrive in your queue with known defects.