DIGITAL COLOR PROOFING -- Right on the Dot

At the same time, though, the print shop has maintained the capability to make an analog proof, Yeats notes. "We still can have a client come in with a digital proof and file from an independent prep house. That digital proof will be calibrated to who knows what target, so when we make a digital proof here it may not look anything like the digital proof the client has already bought and paid for. They expect us to fix the file, at our cost, to match the proof that they've already purchased.