- Problem
- The store accepts files that customers upload to large-format ad orders, and only then does the DTP department check them manually for print errors — overprint, unoutlined fonts, color space, registration marks, mismatched dimensions. Every week is a steady stream of files for manual correction, and the off-the-shelf preflight engines on the market speak English, Spanish and French, so they do not explain to a Polish customer what is wrong with their file and why.
- Approach
- We designed and approved with the client a "black box" architecture: a faulty file comes in through the API, a print-ready one comes out, and the existing e-commerce frontend keeps all the user handling. On this the architecture rests two layers that are the value added here. The first is corrections and explanations in Polish — a description of the error and the fixes in the customer’s language, which off-the-shelf engines do not support. The second is triage in three thresholds: green is errors fixed automatically with a change log (overprint, font outlining, safe color conversion, removal of registration marks); yellow requires a quick confirmation from the user; red, too complex, routes the file to a designer or to human verification. The original file is always kept for an XY comparison, so that beyond the detected error nothing in it changes, and the print guidelines assigned to each product serve as the rule set.
- Outcome
- The client has an approved solution architecture and a prepared final offer: from a file with an error, through automatic repair with a change log and thresholds with human involvement, to Polish explanations and safe preservation of the original. This is a stage with a ready offer, not a deployment — the build has not started yet, and the start of implementation awaits the client’s decision on the scope.