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RealTimeProof.com
After 26 years in the printing industry, Western Laser Graphics President and COO Alan Darling is not easily impressed. So when Darling recommends RealTimeProof.com, it's worth taking note. "It's a slick piece of technology," he remarks.

RealTimeProof.com is a one-stop, online soft and remote hard proofing service, which offers real-time collaboration. Through a digital workflow, large prepress graphic files are transferred and streamed over a standard dial-up Internet connection. The system enables users to view files without quality degradation, and collectively make annotations. While RealTimeProof.com can be used at the design stage to review preliminary rounds of designs, its real power becomes evident during the final production stage. RealTimeProof offers users 1:1 pixel zooming and a densitometer tool that allows clients to inspect traps and bleeds. It also provides ICC profile calibration using Apple's ColorSync and the P3 drag-and-drop desktop queues internally encrypts, tracks and transfers files. Once the revisions are complete, customers can use RealTimeProof to print to a remote digital proofer.