A look at soft proofing for content

From: GATFWORLD | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

While it isn't an entirely new concept, soft proofing, or monitor proofing, represents a real paradigm shift in the print production workflow. The physical proof, whether it is analog or digital, is a tangible object that one can hold in one's hands and use to review a print project and has traditionally been the cornerstone of the approval process. Ask anyone who worked in a color trade shop (nearly a thing of the past in itself) and they will tell you what they really sold to their clients were proofs-the film that was sent off to the printer was almost incidental, at least from the ...

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