Soft-Proofing Workflow
Soft-Proofing Workflow
- Subject: Soft-Proofing Workflow
- From: Ken Fleisher <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:16:18 -0400
Workflow 1:
Make a guide print from a color managed file.
Send file to printer to make a proof.
Compare guide print to proof and mark up proof with changes.
Send guide print and proof back to printer for new proof.
Workflow 2:
Send a color managed file to printer to make a proof.
Compare soft-proof of file to printer’s proof.
?
My question is in workflow 2, what would be recommended as the next steps?
You could mark up the proof and return it to the printer, but there is no
physical reference for what the image “should” look like. I can’t rely on
the printer having a color managed, calibrated monitor on which to view a
color-correct soft-proof. (I know that statement will spark a flurry of
comments, but please understand that selection of who prints the job is
completely out of my control. Let’s try to focus on the question that I am
posing.)
Is there anything that can be suggested to communicate the necessary color
edits to the printer without supplying a hard-copy guide print? In other
words, if you need to mark “less yellow”, how do you indicate how much less
yellow if there is no hard-copy reference? (We are trying to move to a
soft-proof workflow, but our publishing department is resistant.)
I’m just fishing for suggestions. I know the real answer is to use a printer
who is color-managed and has calibrated monitors, but as I said, that is out
of my control. Sometimes they are color-managed, but often they are not.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can provide.
Ken
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