The Proof Is In The Precision

Those hard-copy proofs that remain are being produced with advanced ink-jet technology, mimicking an offset press to create a proof that's accurate down to a halftone dot.

Patrick Floody, marketing manager for Creo, explains that while it may look like proofing technology is going in a thousand different directions at once, we're actually seeing hard proofing and soft proofing steadily increasing in quality, the latter still a few years off from becoming widely accepted.