![]() ![]() ![]() Such proofs are useless and worse than useless. Many printers will give you hard proofs for offset print that have actually been produced on an inkjet printer. In my experience hard proofs can even be misleading, if they haven't been produced using the exact same press and the exact same paper. Having done that, you know that what you see is what you get. This is a visual match, not a numbers match. There is one important condition you have to observe, though: you need to calibrate your monitor so that monitor white point matches paper white, and monitor black point matches maximum ink for that paper. ![]() If proper color management procedure is followed by all parties, the color will match. This shows you the out of gamut colors directly on screen. It's much more efficient to soft proof to the print profile. These days, with a fully color managed process (and a printer who follows correct procedure), a hard proof on paper is usually not necessary. That's why you want a proof in the first place: you need to see which colors are out of gamut in the print process, and compensate as needed. If you see some colors are not as bright and saturated as they are on screen, then that's normal. The profile needs to correspond to the actual printing conditions. Or they're not informing you properly, which amounts to the same thing. If you get a general color shift, you're not using the right CMYK profile. If it isn't, all bets are off and the rest is moot. I'm assuming in the following that your monitor is properly calibrated and profiled. ![]()
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