Color Me Successful

"You don't come in one weekend and set up a color management system," notes Gregory Hill, manager of electronic systems for Sandy Alexander, a commercial printer in Clifton, N.J. "It's an evolving process. You are always going to be tweaking and maintaining the system."

Sandy Alexander's most recent odyssey with color calibration began when it switched from a CMYK environment in prepress to an RGB color space. "We switched to an RGB workflow because we now receive files from a wide variety of sources. We have some clients who are very precise with their files and some that lack the knowledge to prepare their files correctly. In either case, we have to make it work. Plus, a wider color gamut is more in demand."