DIGITAL COLOR PROOFING -- Right on the Dot

"I see the thermal proof prices coming down, but I don't see us replacing thermal with an ink-jet solution," he explains. "The market we compete in is a little special, and high-end proofing differentiates us from shops using ink-jet systems."

Quality Graphics' Yeats also believes halftone dots will continue to be a requirement in proofing, but in one or two years he expects to start seeing ink-jet devices able to produce dots.