COLOR CONTROL -- Managing the Variables

Hutcheson recommends a modified set of pressroom procedures that he says takes the same amount of effort, but redirects it to actions that are of greater use in managing color. Chief among these is maintaining gray balance throughout the press run.

"When I entered this industry 31 years ago, it appalled me that gray wasn't already the number one quality control metric, and it still isn't today. I'm trying to raise it to the stature of being one of the critical measurements in the pressroom."