War Stories: Color House Tales

In the old days of film, everything ended up on sheets of separated film from which a Matchprint or similar proof could be directly printed. You absolutely knew that what you saw on the proof was what you were delivering to the printer on the separated film.

Not so today. You still see a final proof, of course, which you deliver to your printer. But the problem is that one final proof has almost certainly not been produced directly from the final CTP files you’re shipping to your printer.