Digital Color Proofing -- Proof or Consequences

At the last Vue/Point conference, the Color Proofing 2000 panel suggested that including color bars in digital proofs should be a standard practice. With more jobs being handed off digitally, panelist Ray Flatt recommended that the industry go one step further and make color bars a standard component of every file. "We need a known point of reference, both in the file and in the proof, that we can hang our hats on," asserts Flatt, of the Gazlay Marketing Group in Kansas City, KS.