DIGITAL COLOR PROOFING -- Right on the Dot

The majority of Color + Graphics' work requires a halftone proof, the operations manager says, but he has seen clients become more accepting of continuous-tone proofs for type corrections or small moves in solid colors.

"We show clients a FinalProof as the first proof to get color right from the start," Bishop explains. "There is some work that only gets a PictroProof, including the ads we send out and more cost-sensitive jobs that are just two-color or simple four-color work. And, about 15 to 20 percent stays in the analog world because we do a lot of spot-color jobs.