Color Scanners--The Color of Digital Originals

Although high-end scanning methodologies have been used in CMYK formats to ensure high quality for commercial printing results, there are many factors that, in sum, make these techniques less efficient for today and the future.

When the final goal was to produce film and an analog color proof that represented final press conditions, scanning internally with the "known" conditions that covered paper, ink, dot gain, screen ruling, UCR, GCR, etc. was best accomplished by scanning directly to the CMYK output format.