Free print preflight for PDFs — privacy by design
A full PDF preflight inspection — bleed, image resolution, color spaces, fonts and overprint — before your job hits the press. The analysis runs in Web Workers on your machine, so there is nothing to upload and no copy of your artwork on any server.
- free tier
- no account required
- works offline
Drop. Analyze. Ship.
Drag a PDF onto the page. BANCO parses it with a WebAssembly pipeline, walks every page, and returns a structured report in seconds — verdict, per-issue fixes, and a font license audit.
- Deterministic checks — no AI, no guessing. The same file always yields the same report.
- Workers, not the main thread — the UI stays responsive even on 200-page files.
- Offline after first load — a service worker caches everything. Disconnect and keep working.
Structured findings with the fix, not just the flag.
Start your preflight here
Pick a check, drop your file, get the answer
Six focused scanners — one per problem: bleed, resolution, color, fonts, licenses, overprint. Choose the check you need below, drop the PDF, and the verdict appears on the spot; or run every check at once in the workspace.
PDF Preflight Checker
All five checks in one drop — bleed, resolution, fonts, color and overprint.
Bleed Checker
Verify the required 3 mm bleed against the TrimBox, per side, per page.
DPI Checker
Find every image under 300 DPI at placed size, with page and coordinates.
Embedded Fonts Checker
Confirm every font in the PDF is embedded before the RIP substitutes it.
Color Space Checker
Detect RGB, CMYK and Device color without an embedded ICC profile.
Font License Checker
Read the fsType embedding permission straight from the font binary.
Private by design, not by promise
Client-side PDFs and NDAs shouldn't ride through someone else's server. BANCO has no backend, no uploads, and no analytics. Open the Network tab, drop a file, and watch nothing happen.
Questions, answered
The things people ask before trusting a tool with their print-ready files.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. BANCO parses PDFs and font files inside your browser using WebAssembly and Web Workers. There is no backend that receives your files — you can open the browser's Network tab…
What does BANCO check in a PDF?
BANCO measures bleed (MediaBox versus TrimBox against the 3 mm rule, per side), computes the effective DPI of every placed image (300 for photos, 1200 for line art), flags Devic…
Which file types can I analyze?
BANCO accepts PDF documents for the full preflight (bleed, resolution, color, fonts, overprint) and font files — .ttf, .otf, .woff and .woff2 — for a dedicated license audit bas…
Does BANCO work offline?
Yes. After your first visit, a service worker caches the app so it keeps working without a connection — preflight included. The current online/offline status is shown in the wor…
Is BANCO really free?
Yes. The analysis runs on your machine, so there is no server cost to meter — every preflight check is free and unlimited. Paid tiers only add convenience features; the checks t…
What do I get with a free account?
A free account — just a verified email, no credit card — keeps 30 reports in your history instead of 5 and exports PDF reports without the guest watermark. Privacy is identical:…
Free where it matters
The analysis itself is always free — it runs on your machine, so there is nothing to meter. Paid tiers only add convenience.
Guest
€0 — no account
- ✓ Every preflight check, unlimited
- ✓ Works fully offline
- ✓ Latest 5 reports in history
- — PDF export with guest watermark
Free account
€0 — just an email
- ✓ Everything in Guest
- ✓ 30 reports kept in history
- ✓ Clean, watermarked-free PDF export
- ✓ Same privacy: files stay local
Pro — coming soon
~€7/mo · founding cohort
- ✓ End-to-end encrypted cloud sync of reports
- ✓ Unlimited history + report comparison
- ✓ Saved print presets per press
- — In development. Priced against PitStop (~€480/yr)
Pro pricing is anchored to the professional tools it replaces: Enfocus PitStop Pro runs about $40/month, callas pdfToolbox sits in the hundreds per year. BANCO Pro targets a small fraction of that for analysis-first workflows.