About Your Goals
Priority
What are your main prepress color challenges?
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Assess your proofer accuracy to GRACoL (or Fogra), and to printing room.
Fix your customer files because they are in the wrong color space.
Eliminate hard copy proofing costs (ink/paper) by implementing soft proofing.
Align proofers across multiple substrates.
Device Color Management
Color Management Practice
How do you color manage your printing devices?
Select all that apply.
No Calibration/Profiling, just runs and we trust it
We have a vendor take care of it for us
Calibrate device using G7 curves
Create ICC Profiles and/or Device Link profiles to manage printer
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ICC Profiling
Profile Workflow
How are ICC device profiles created and managed?
We don’t use ICC Profiles that I know of
We use generic / vendor-supplied profiles
A vendor takes care of this for us
We build profiles for printers but don’t verify that printer is matching desired reference
We build profiles, and verify that printer is matching reference
What reference do you use?
GRACoL / G7
Fogra
ISO 12647
Custom
What tolerance?
ΔE < 1
ΔE < 2
ΔE < 3
Other
Do you print a certification label?
Yes
No
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Soft Proofing
Monitor & Display
Is soft proofing being done in your organization?
No
Calibrated and profiled display, verified visually
Calibrated / profiled display verified with instrument
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Plate & Anilox Control
Measurement Practice
How are Plate and/or Aniloxes verified?
They aren’t — vendor set it up and we go with it
We measure our plates / aniloxes on a defined schedule
Measurement frequency
Per job
Per day
Per week
Other
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Plate & Anilox Setup
Device Count
Do you have multiple platesetters or aniloxes?
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Plate & Anilox Setup
Measurement Tools
What measurement devices do you use?
Select all that apply.
Densitometer
Spectrophotometer
Visual only
Other
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