The Digital Revolution (Color Proofing - the Digital Revolution)

At present, some of the higher-end printing companies have used a complete digital process, and they can afford the cost of learning and training - similar to research and development funds. Such companies can try new technologies, and even if they can't receive good results, they can go back and do a simulation process.
In contrast, small and medium-sized manufacturers do not have the time to afford tuition fees. So they think it's safer to do film-based proofing.
With the advancement of technology and product intelligence, the learning process has been shortened. And big manufacturers have already tried it, and it is time for others to follow. This is also the reason why digital proofing has undergone enormous changes in recent times.
Earlier, people did not know what the market's response to digital proofing was, what problems it would encounter when using it, nor how to correct it. But now all this is no longer a problem.
Although there are still some obstacles, large companies and large manufacturers have realized their existence. They also experienced the similarities and differences between analog and digital in the process of practice. But like other things, when a new technology emerges, Some people will come out and hope that the investment in this will bring more business opportunities. These companies will encounter a variety of problems, but they are also the first to benefit from this technology.
Once the technology is mature and the first to try to get people's approval, there will be a second wave - because the facts have proven that other companies have begun to accept it. These companies are not the first investors in the technology. They invested all the advantages of digital process flow and made the investment more targeted.
The numbers have soared. More and more people are ready to turn to digital proofing. There are still plenty of people waiting to see it, but the transition from analog to digital is very fast anyway.
Today, the market share of analog proofing is still the largest, but this situation changes every day. It won't take long for digital proofing to catch up even beyond the market for analog proofing. I don't know if one day simulation simulation will be launched permanently from this market. Looking at its future development may be a very interesting thing.
Proofing Products In the past few years, many manufacturers have introduced many halftone digital proofing devices to the market, including Creo-Scitex's Trendsetter/Spectrum and Spectrum, Polaroid's Pola-Proof, Imation's Creo equipment production materials, and Fuji's. FinalProof.
SWOP and proofing are obvious. This reform has affected the printing industry in many ways. Therefore, it is not uncommon for the SWOP specification to undergo some changes. At the beginning, SWOP did not recognize pressureless simulation proofing, but only accepted imprinted samples. Later, with the Application Data Sheet (ADS), SWOP began to accept simulation proofing, but required visual matching with the SWOP-approved sheets, which could be purchased in sets. However, the problem is always varied, and visual matching can easily introduce some artificial subjective factors. Each manufacturer may say: "According to our proofs, our products are matched." But this has no effect.
In another transition, SWOP printed a SWOP printer press sheet, a test strip called TR001, with the actual data of the SWOP standard listed above. In 1999, SWOP developed a standard process for pressureless proofing. Pressureless proofing can be either analog or digital. This means that during the proofing process, it must be visually and technically matched to the TR001. The SWOP must prove that the visual and technical data is used to calibrate according to the manufacturer's application data sheet (ADS) to achieve a finer matching process. . This is a very effective process. In addition, each product is retested once a year, forcing companies to ensure that their systems remain stable and unchanged.
In the aspect of simulation proofing, there are proof systems with spot colors or non-primary colors (ie, colors other than CMYK). In the digital arena, people are adapting to it and deciding whether to turn. In addition, the digital proofing system is not as perfect as analog proofing. Therefore, all of us are now trying our best to solve the problem of how to generate non-primary colors on digital proofing machines to take part in the competition. This will become the only and largest goal for all merchants in the coming years.