Ten Ways to Improve Color Management

The IPA, the association of graphic solutions providers (www.ipa.org), says only 33 percent of creative, design and publishing companies have SOPs for color management. SOPs are necessary safeguards to ensure consistent color. If your company doesn’t have color-management SOPs, take the time to create them, and be sure that everyone adheres to them. Bypassing established procedures to get a rush job out the door only causes more severe problems on the press.