Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
As a printer and a half azz artist/clipart jockey is there a standard that artist in the biz go by, I know every person with a computer is an artist now days. mind you some do really nice designs but are almost impossible to sep without redoing the art. I know in-house artist know what to do and how to use colors that fit the press and limits, so that leads me to ask this question is there an industry standard for colors, I know back before I bought my press one of the top shops here told me that a six to eight color press would handle 90% of the prints you might get coming thru your shop. I would think large print shops with over 10 press's would have large 16/20 or a little bigger press's, but still how much of that is for screens vs flashes. I spoke with David Graine many years ago and we discuss a piece of art that was like 8 maybe 10 color sim process and he said it could have been done in 6 using a different method.