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

By Abhay Sharma

We see that an image file can be processed through different ICC color profiles so that we can control and direct the color and always get the "correct" color. The "wrong" color is often created when we take the customer's job with their camera profile (or other input profile, such as sRGB) and display that directly on a monitor or send it directly to an ink-jet proofer. In that case the customer sees a very nice, bright, colorful image, and not what a digital or offset press will typically be able to print.