PROOFING FACILITIES
Proofing is a creative stage where experimentation, as well as trialling colourways prior to production, is actively encouraged. We have a wide range of proofing facilities managed by highly skilled colourists, where designs can be replicated by machine, CAD or by hand. Gravure and flexo designs are machine proofed, whilst the mini-screen facility is used to replicate rotary, hand screen-printed and surface printed products.

Anstey also has a large cylinder bank of spare designs. These can be mixed together to create unique effects and proofed in combination with either each other, or, with new cylinder and roller engravings.

COLOURATION
Our experienced designers can advise on traditional and contemporary colour trends. In the case of archive based designs it is imperative that these are coloured in a way that is sympathetic to contemporary trends, without undermining their historic value.

There is a customer room attached to the studio should a customer wish to be on site during all or part of the colour development process. Alternatively, our designers are happy to match any colour reference supplied, either by cylinder proofing, or by mini screen-printing, and to supply the ensuing colourations for approval via courier service.

The Development Studio and Proof Press pride themselves on their continual endeavours to improve the correlation of machine proofs or mini-screened samples to that of the corresponding production processes and can supply accurate pre-production colour samples.