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Barriers to monitor use are falling Remote, or monitor, proofing has been a long time coming. It has been part of Kodak’s Matchprint programme and linked to Prinergy workflow; it has been offered by Agfa as part of Delano and Apogee; it has been offered by Dalim, Screen and other workflow providers. But aside from approving the conten Issue Date: December 2008
Dalim operates calibration After showing promise with Dalim Dialogue, the technology is in full use this year, says development director Isabelle Billerey-Rayel. “It is something very new this year that we have presented at shows like Ifra,” she says Issue Date: December 2008
ICS fills gap with Just viewing booth Right at the forefront of the US move to monitor proofing is ICS and its Remote Director application. It has versions of the software to run in the publisher, at the agency and at press-side, and is the most widely adopted independent monitor proofing application in the US. Issue Date: December 2008
It's Blackmagic for the Dutch Blackmagic has gained a foothold in Europe as the proofing system most used in Dutch newspapers and publishers. It is also working with Goss so that a camera recognition system mounted above the operator can pick a printed barcode from the page being viewed and automatically call the same page to th Issue Date: December 2008
Logisitics barriers remain for web printers Web offset printers will need a revenue stream to justify the investment needed to take the UK magazine publishing industry into a digital proofing age, says St Ives technical director John Charnock. Issue Date: December 2008
Newspapers are well on the way Newspapers are the first sector of the printing industry to take to monitor proofing in a sustained way. Issue Date: December 2008
No incursion at repro's high end One of the UK’s leading repro houses says it has had no pressure from publishers to migrate to monitor proofing. Richard Gambling, director of Zebra, says that the type of high-end work that his customers demand means they get a hard copy proof produced through the GMG and Epson inkjet set-up. Issue Date: December 2008
Range of screens increases The US has seen widespread adoption of monitor proofing following the support for the technology from Time magazines. Issue Date: December 2008
Targetcolour delivers solution to Bauer Targetcolour, the UK distributor for ICS, is setting up the first JUST Normlicht viewing system at Bauer in Camden Issue Date: December 2008
What you need to know about...Monitor proofing Can soft proofing take over from hard copy digital proofs? The technology seems to be in place, and it seems that step by step printers are coming to accept that a screen proof can be a quality proof Issue Date: December 2008
Windsor's test proves that controlled system works Windsor Print Production in Tonbridge has successfully tested a press-side monitor proofing system based around an Eizo ColorEdge CG30 monitor placed on the console of one of the two Speedmaster 74s it runs. Issue Date: December 2008

Barriers to monitor use are falling

Remote, or monitor, proofing has been a long time coming. It has been part of Kodak’s Matchprint programme and linked to Prinergy workflow; it has been offered by Agfa as part of Delano and Apogee; it has been offered by Dalim, Screen and other workflow providers. But aside from approving the conten
Issue Date: December 2008

Dalim operates calibration

After showing promise with Dalim Dialogue, the technology is in full use this year, says development director Isabelle Billerey-Rayel. “It is something very new this year that we have presented at shows like Ifra,” she says
Issue Date: December 2008

ICS fills gap with Just viewing booth

Right at the forefront of the US move to monitor proofing is ICS and its Remote Director application. It has versions of the software to run in the publisher, at the agency and at press-side, and is the most widely adopted independent monitor proofing application in the US.
Issue Date: December 2008

It's Blackmagic for the Dutch

Blackmagic has gained a foothold in Europe as the proofing system most used in Dutch newspapers and publishers. It is also working with Goss so that a camera recognition system mounted above the operator can pick a printed barcode from the page being viewed and automatically call the same page to th
Issue Date: December 2008

Logisitics barriers remain for web printers

Web offset printers will need a revenue stream to justify the investment needed to take the UK magazine publishing industry into a digital proofing age, says St Ives technical director John Charnock.
Issue Date: December 2008

Newspapers are well on the way

Newspapers are the first sector of the printing industry to take to monitor proofing in a sustained way.
Issue Date: December 2008

No incursion at repro's high end

One of the UK’s leading repro houses says it has had no pressure from publishers to migrate to monitor proofing. Richard Gambling, director of Zebra, says that the type of high-end work that his customers demand means they get a hard copy proof produced through the GMG and Epson inkjet set-up.
Issue Date: December 2008