Stephanie,

I would recommend that you consult with either the printing company or color house (separator) that you most do business with (and trust, of course).

You might as well set up a companion balanced color viewing station to match your favorite vendor. That way you see what they see. It also makes it possible to do remote color correction conferences as well.

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Here are a few links:

http://www.bykgardner.com/html/byk/index.html

http://usa.gretagmacbethstore.com/index.cfm/MenuItemID/296.htm

http://kmpi.konicaminolta.us/eprise/main/kmpi/content/ISD/ISD_Category_Pages/lightbooths

Article with links to different manufacturers:
http://www.digitaloutput.net/content/ContentCT.asp?P=214

Hope that ‘sheds a little light’ on the subject. ;)

Steph, also get monitor calabration hardware that matches your color booths’. Also there is the whole issue on how color prints based on different printing systems, like sheet fed vs web and these days even waterless.

Thanks very much to all for this information. The unfortunate fact is, we don’t really have a trusted print house to turn to for advice largely because it’s only recently that we’ve begun doing a significant amount of print. Moreover we haven’t had a lot of luck with the vendors we’ve been using of late—some quality and service issues. So I have to turn to other avenues for insight I’m afraid.

Good point about the monitor calibration software; we do have a PANTONE set up for that so I’ll keep that in mind.

Thanks again! I really appreciate having this web site to turn to for stuff like this. I am letting as many people know about it as I can.

Stephanie