Print check
Find out why a print shop would reject your PDF — before you send it.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDFs here
or pick them from your device
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Run this tool and the next one back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
- 1
Add your file
Add the PDF you are about to send to a printer. Do this before you upload it, because a rejection from a print service usually costs you days rather than minutes.
- 2
Set it up the way you want
Nothing to configure. Fonts, image resolution at print size, page geometry and colour space are all read out of the file and checked.
- 3
Download the result
Read the report. It tells you which fonts are not embedded, which images are too low-resolution for the size they are placed at, and what your page boxes actually say.
Questions about Print check
- Why does image resolution depend on placement?
- Because what matters is detail per printed inch, not pixels in the file. A 2000-pixel image is sharp at postcard size and soft across a full page. The check divides the image size by the space it occupies on the page, which is the number a printer cares about.
- Does it convert RGB to CMYK?
- No. It tells you which one your file uses; it does not convert between them. Doing that properly needs ICC colour management, and approximating it in a browser would produce a file that looks right on screen and prints wrong — which is worse than not offering it.
- Does passing mean my printer will accept it?
- It means the common structural causes of rejection are not present. Every print service has its own template and its own tolerances, so check the report against their specification rather than treating a clean result as approval.