Remote Proofing--The Collaborative Proof

"We're feeling the waters," admits Frank Kenavan, network administrator at Acorn Press. "Initially, we had many of the same confidence concerns as most other printers and print customers. In some ways, we're just now moving past those concerns to a point of solid acceptance."

Remote Routines
At present, one of Acorn's customers uses remote proofing to confirm editorial content. Acorn's procedure with this client is now routine: Acorn receives digital files for a given job, puts the files in low res with scanned color, does all the assembly, creates a PDF file and sends that PDF back to the client.