War Stories: Color House Tales

But that hasn’t happened to me. My biggest problem has been delivering wrong versions of files to the printer. As a cataloger, you realize that you have many versions of your images, and often many versions of your catalog, too.

But at the color house level, the versioning problem has become far worse. Your color house generates new versions of individual images each time you correct an image. The number of versions increases with each revision from your designer, each in-house type correction, and each output version for the ever-growing variety of proofing and CTP systems supported by most color houses.