Online Proofing - Make Mine Soft-Serve

Soft proofing for package printing

Whether or not soft proofing is feasible for packaging workflows "really depends upon the application and also on the substrate—whether bag or board or foil—that you need to replicate and, in the online realm, to add those profiles," says St. Vrain. For example, "A lot of our customers want to do new graphics for existing substrates, in which case what we're really doing is taking the same material and redesigning. And there are other applications, as in pharmaceuticals—with the FDA regulations and documentation requirements, etc.—where they are simply changing some text or graphic on the existing label to meet a new requirement. In those instances, you might get all the way to the contract proof."