War Stories: Color House Tales

Your color house’s final proofing device isn’t the same machine as your printer’s CTP machine. To print that final color proof, your color house must process the files, which instantly opens the possibility of printing one version for your final proof, and delivering a different version to your printer. This happened to me more than a half-dozen times in my first year of CTP printing. I’ve solved the problem by requiring that some sort of proof be pulled directly from the CTP files that I’m delivering to the printer.