CS0405_SpecReport_SoftProofs

Some things never change.

“Soft proofing is a double-edged sword,” says Sarah Fletcher, creative director for Charlestown, R.I.-based Catalog Design Studios. “On the one hand, it is, by its very existence, impossible. What you see on screen is RGB, and what you get on paper is CMYK. RGB produces a much larger color gamut than CMYK. You can see more colors on screen than you can actually print.”