Special Report: The Three Ps - Five Production Professionals Share Their Views of Today’s and Tomorrow Best Technologies

Treis: The hot topic is Internet proofing. In the next five years, the technology to proof on a monitor will have evolved, [so] that we actually can have serious discussions about previewing and approving preliminary page proofs.

But Internet proofing will be a good solution if pleasing color is all you expect. If you’re in the high-end color-critical demographic, you’ll still need to rely on a hard-copy, dot-based, contract proofs.