Apparatuses for making proofs in digital or analog proofing systems including photographic proofing systems, including apparatuses for imaging, exposing, processing, developing, and laminating proofing materials, namely control devices for controlling regulating, supplying, and networking printing presses, printing machines, digital computer network printers, copiers, machines for exposing and developing printing plates, proofing materials and photographic materials; apparatuses for imaging printing plates including imaging, on-press imaging, processing, and developing apparatuses, namely, devices for recording, transmitting and displaying images and information, namely, scanners, exposers, plate image readers, Raster Image Processors, copiers, and Data processing devices for the graphic industry, namely digital network printers; computer printers, photocopying machines; electrophotographic, ink jet, halftone, and contone printers that use liquid printing substances and other printing devices, namely, printing presses, laser printers, digital printers, electrostatic printers; computer software for use in data management, file transfer, file compression and storage in the field of graphic arts; software for management and conversion of color images from a digital or analog source through a communication channel to a target with a known color profile for accurate color image display; software for identifying a color profile of an image in a monitor, a server, a scanner, a camera, or a storage medium and converting the image based on the target color profile for image display on a monitor, a printer, or a camera; software for controlling color reproduction within the colour proofing process or in the photofinishing process; software for describing color reproduction characteristics within the colour proofing process or the photofinishing process; software for matching the color of one displayed image to the colour of another displayed image within the color proofing process or photofinishing process; software to measure color characteristics within the colour proofing process or the photofinishing processes; software for simulating color halftone screening