COLOR CONTROL -- Managing the Variables

The financial returns in the pressroom come from optimizing makereadies—meaning shorter and with substantially less waste. The ability to match the proof quicker also means huge dollars to a printer, Hutcheson notes.

In the prepress arena, he recommends that companies convert to an RGB-based workflow when implementing color management. The payoff in proofing comes from eliminating rounds of proofs and the ability to use much cheaper proofing systems to achieve the same, or even better, quality of proof.