Not yet read this PDF file The Art of Proofing by John Paul Caponigro, but it looks interesting. I always prefer his photographs to his Latin-soaked writing (see his mission statement), and his site probably has plenty of interesting new work like this Antarctica shot, though for some odd reason his pictures are now in pdf files and I couldn’t be bothered going through them all. I’ll update this post after I meet my deadline – I’m sure the article will be thoughtful:

Proofing : Evaluating an image printed on a particular substrate*, making adjustments, reprinting, re evaluating the image, and repeating until optimum results are achieved. Some think it?s a lost art. It?s not. Some aren’t aware that they?re doing it. You probably are. If you?re not doing proofing, it?s highly likely that you could make even better prints. If you are proofing, you?ll find that structuring and refining your proofing process will have many beneficial effects on the print quality you achieve.

* most of us call it “paper”.