DIGITAL PROOFING -- Taking Measure of a Proof

Experts Weigh In

More than three dozen "color experts" compared images on each vendor's monitor to a printed sheet produced to GRACoL standards. The monitor-to-monitor results were said to be extremely close, but the home-grown alternative was noticeably inferior.

According to Bassinger, any study of soft proofing is currently limited by the fact that there is no method available for reading and calculating the differences between emitted and reflective colors, which would be required for a monitor-to-press sheet comparison. The primary reason is that the press color gamut exceeds that of a monitor.