Museum publications, exhibition catalogues, artist monographs. Working with high-resolution images, where colour reproduction matters.
A screen emits its own light, so it shows colours that ink cannot reproduce. Vivid greens, oranges and deep navies suffer most. I move the image into the print space deliberately, rather than leaving that decision to the press.
A photo that looks sharp on screen is often too small for print: a monitor shows about a hundred dots per inch, a press needs three hundred. A full-page A4 reproduction means a file roughly two and a half thousand pixels wide. If the material falls short, I say so before typesetting, not after printing.
A proof on the final paper is the only moment when colour can be compared against the original and still corrected. It is worth looking at it together with the artist or curator, because they are the ones who remember what the original really looks like.
Typesetting under time pressure, precise reproductions of auction lots with lot numbers, condition reports and opening prices.
Lot numbers can change up to the last minute, so I build the layout so that adding or withdrawing an item does not rebuild the whole catalogue.
Tell me briefly what it is about: type of publication, format, number of reproductions, planned deadline. I will reply with a quote within 1-2 days.