Special Report: The Three Ps - The Country House Pairs Traditional Products with New-age Production

Files are sent to Brown either on CD-ROM or via a password-protected FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site established by the printer. All proofing (both for composition and contract purposes) is done in-house.

“The right equipment helps,” Grossman suggests. Throughout the creative process, pages are proofed on LaCie monitors running with Macintosh G4s. For hard-copy proofs, the company uses an Epson Stylus Pro 5000 with a Fiery RIP, and it prints on DuPont/Epson Commercial Matte proofing paper.