Special Report The 3Ps: Printing, Production and Paper

CS: What about soft proofing? Do you see a trend of catalog creators and their printers using soft proofs in lieu of hard proofs, and at what stage of the workflow?

Downey: I don’t see a trend unfolding here yet. I have one client who is very progressive and looking hard at [soft proofing]. But they were in a good position to do it. They were used to doing a lot of online imposition proofing with the printer, anyway.