There are so many CDs and ZIP disks on his desk. He handled thousands of files and made them ready to print. Usual routine of opening and "preflighting" files from clients was easier part of job. The hard part is making sure that final prints will be very close match to proofs that came along with files. Most of the time, Mark gueses the final look - he knows that his monitor "cheats" on color...
"I can tweak any file to
match hard copy.
RGB are the hard ones.
What Mark doesn't know: We have to agree on one thing; Marks job is very tricky. If we just imagine all those clients send so many diffrent file formats/color modes/color proofs.
George has to make sure that they gonna look OK after he sends them to the printer.
Solution for George: Eye-One Photo: This very affordable solution would enable George to create custom monitor ICC profile and utilizing profile provided form printing company he would have a very accurate color simulation on his screen, So when he designs - he is looking at the true colors. His small desktop printer (inexpensive non-postscript printer with RGB based driver) would very closely simulate final output as well. buy device...
