With soft proofing, your monitor provides an accurate prediction of printing press output

By Abhay Sharma

Color calibration of the monitor is a key consideration in soft proofing. All soft proofing systems instruct the user to hang a measuring instrument over the face of the display, and then a number of color patches are automatically displayed and measured. This is called color calibration and profiling. Without color calibration a customer can approve content, placement and text, and can annotate a proof. Only after a display has been calibrated and appropriate profiles applied, should the customer attempt to approve and edit color.