A View From Anywhere

In either case, remote proofing facilitates the sharing of printable images throughout the iterative approval process from concept to completion. It's giving us new ways to connect key individuals involved in the printing production cycle and it's nurturing a higher level of digital collaboration.

The first implementations of remote proofing—and many are still in use—are the proprietary, point-to-point infrastructures designed by in-house digital workflow gurus to send say, a series of toothpaste line extensions from a prepress house in Chicago over an ISDN connection to a product manager in Cincinnati. Not possible, and certainly not practical, without brilliant IT support, expensive equipment, and a good deal of education and management.