A system and method for accurately communicating color production printer
color requirements include color selector software to display an
interactive original document on a monitor. Tools enable navigating the
displayed original document, tagging at least one critical color of the
displayed document, and selection of a color tolerance in connection with
each tagged critical color of the displayed document. Target builder
software creates a master critical colors chart displaying only tagged
critical colors for the original document, a master color aim chart, and
a master color tolerance chart of critical colors and associated color
tolerances identified in the displayed document. At least the critical
colors chart and original document are printed. A printed master color
aim chart and master color tolerance chart and customer printed charts
are compared to the production end printed master critical colors chart
for visually determining tolerances of customer printed charts.