Once you have a chrome, you can easily rescan it for use at any final size. Think of it as a postcard today and a billboard tomorrow. Ad agencies have long insisted on having transparencies available for jobs and with very good reason. A chrome is a simple way to communicate color information. Standards have long existed for light boxes on which to evaluate film so that the problem of device calibration is avoided.
Chromes are also excellent pre-separation proofs.
Even when the separations will be done from your file, a transparency serves as an excellent color guide for the separator. And in a worst-case scenario where the file will not produce the proper separations, the transparency represents an alternative means to get the job finished on time avoiding costly press delays. These are the main benefits of contone film but there are a number of others including the fact that film still represents the lowest-cost means of archiving images. And now, with our new LightJet 2000 film recorder, images are sharper and interpolation is better than ever. Please allow us to assist you with your imaging needs.