When it comes to proofing, in-plants use a variety of methods, both virtual and tangible.

By Carol Brzozowski

“For instance, eight-point type on the press sheet comes out sharp because when you printed the plates out, you output them at 2,400 or 3,600 dpi, but on the proof, all type looks a bit fuzzy or fatter because you are trying to create that color out of the fixed size of the pixels on the ink-jet,” Johnson says.