Maine Broadcast Television, Print Advertising

Electronic Color Proofing Re-emerges

September 8th, 2009 by Mike

Color proofing technology has come a long way in a short time, and it’s still not fully settled down. The definition of a “printer’s proof” in Webster’s New World Dictionary reads: “A trial impression pulled from composed type for checking against the original manuscript.” That proof, product of a bygone day, was based on an image in physical relief, from which the page was printed. In those days…

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I moved to Maine when I was 16 years old. I got my start as a feeder operator on a press. After a side step into the dying art of letterpress printing (which I quite enjoyed), I moved into film-based prepress. Building on that experience I then jumped head-first into digital prepress. I came on board at Spire Express in 2000, staying quite busy for some time doing imagesetting. Now here I am on the other side of yet another transition (away from silver-based imaging), working to stay on my toes with new technologies and media. When I'm not working, I enjoy playing the fiddle and banjo. Portland is a great town in which to work and play music.

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