The manuscript is the first of all textproofs. Customers will save time and money by regarding the manuscript as galleys and make necessary corrections themselves at this stage.

Galleys
At this stage you should check:

• Fonts
• Bold text and italics
• Underlining
• Hyphenation
• Chapter breaks
• Headings
• Mark placement of pictures and sizes
  

• Check page make-up and page breaks
• Check bold, italics and underlined text
• Are chapter breaks and headings correct?
• Proofread text, if not already done
• Make sure galleys corrections are successfully done
  

• Full color from laserprinters does not show exact or true colors for comparison while printing. You can see yellow as yellow and red as red. Text should in most cases be free of errors at this stage.
• Check if text and solids are the right colors.
  

• Iris proofs show a reasonably close results to printing, provided good quality paper is used for printing. Some colors, however, show a slightly different result in iris proofs.
• At this stage you inspect pictures and check that the result is close to the original.
• It is important to inspect iris proofs in 5000 K light.
  

• Check overall looks, color combination, quality of color pictures, if not already done.Text should be error free at this stage.
• Check cropping and placement of pictures and the colors of solids and text.
  

• Check imposition and trimming.
• Check that pages are in sequence.
• Check that no text is missing.
• Check if text is placed accurately on the pages and margins are correct.
• If this is a color proof (improof) and no color proof has been made previously, you should check if text and solids are the right color. Please note that the colors are not identical with printing, but show blue as blue and red as red.