IMAGE CAPTURE -- Market Goes Flat

One client recently supplied a half dozen digital shots along with transparencies of the same subject as kind of a test, Dear says. System Color scanned the hard copy and proofed both versions of the digital files for comparison.

"The scanned images definitely were better than the supplied digital," the prepress exec claims. "That doesn't mean digital photo-graphy is inferior. It could just be a matter of the way these files were done. In the end, the client said he was not impressed with the digital shots, but he is still going to investigate digital photography further."