Soft Proofing:
 Is It Hard?

There also has been growing –acceptance of the medium—from both the print community as well as from clients—as people have become more accustomed to viewing files on a monitor. Underpinning these developments, of course, is an understanding that the transmission of proofs and prototypes by mail can substantially delay the proofing process. With time at a premium, companies involved in the development and approval phase of package design are under more pressure than ever to implement processes and process controls that will streamline and advance communication between the service provider and the customer—without incurring any degradation in quality.