Perfecting Proofing

"The industry continues to fight proof/press issues and excess waste in materials, time, and labor," Pope says. "The name of the game is process control. We view our latest effort as an opportunity to improve how well our presses can match the proof. One of the keys is to level the playing field as much as possible by using the same 'crayons', so to say, on all our output devices. If the color of your process colorants is different from device to device, you have a potentially significant uphill battle in terms of achieving a match. Process control and good calibration techniques give us a real opportunity to leverage this capability against the competition."