Screen soft proofing newspaper application (4)

(four) application of soft proofing

Screen soft proofing is more appropriate and more desirable for newspaper printing.

(1) Because the newspaper printing has high timeliness requirements and quality requirements, the proofing process has not been a necessary process for many years. It is only for the coloring newspapers that there is a need for proofing in terms of guaranteeing the color quality of the color newspapers, but the newspaper industry has proofs for proofs. Dependency is far less than the contract proofing of commercial printing. The newspaper industry has realized that screen proofing can meet the requirements of the newspaper industry to prevent layout errors and color deviations.

(2) Meet the newspaper's nature of non-contract proofing in pursuit of consistency between newspapers and proofs.

(3) The screen soft proofing does not occupy the publishing time and is convenient and has little technical obstacles.

(4) The application of screen soft proofing in the newspaper industry also has Chinese characteristics. Compared with foreign newspapers, Chinese newspapers are more colorful, and color information such as photos, titles, advertisements, headers, shading, etc. are more complex and color-matching. The accuracy requirements are higher, so proofing is even more important.

It is understood that at present, some newspaper offices have installed a monitor for each printing machine to achieve interconnection and sharing with the prepress system. Although there are no color report proofs, printer operators can use the colors of newspapers displayed on the screen as a reference, and are effective in avoiding color casts, and they can also prevent misprints.

In short, the soft proofing of the screen is a technology that complies with the development requirements of the informatization of printing technology. After years of development, it has made great breakthroughs. It can realize the dataization of the proofing process, realize the complete digital connection in the prepress, proofing and printing process, and bring it into the newspaper printing field. There is also the possibility of necessity.

(Author/Legal Publishing House Li Baoqiang)
Sources of Information / Printing Technology 2005, 10 (Publishing and Commercial Printing)