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

By Abhay Sharma

If you are approving color or are discussing color over the phone while you and your customer both look at a proof, then it is important that both of your screens are color calibrated. Green-red "traffic lights" (Figure 3) can be used to indicate who is viewing and collaborating on a soft proof and the status of their system. After a pre-set number of days the screen calibration will lapse and the user is asked to recalibrate his or her monitor. Any good soft proofing solution should constantly display the status of all parties in a collaborative session. This can avoid lengthy arguments and expensive mistakes.