What is a Proof?
A Proof is a set of job produced before the final results are output to a or . This allows you to verify and correct different aspects of a job before submitting it to press.
In Apogee, we can distinguish several different types of proofs, each with their own purpose:
•Page Proof: A Page Proof allows you to check the content and color reproduction of specific pages (color proofs should closely match the expected press print output). In many cases, you may not want to proof all pages, and you may not need an scheme. Instead, you may simply want to pack as many pages onto a as possible.
•Imposition Proof: An Imposition Proof allows you to check that the chosen imposition scheme correctly produces the required result after folding and cutting. This is most commonly used to check a new imposition scheme.
•Production Proof: A Production Proof allows you to check job content and page order. This gives you a good idea of how the final result will look, but may use a different imposition scheme than the final result.
There are three ways of viewing any type of proof:
•Hard Proof: This method outputs the proof to a physical proofing device, such as a Sherpa .
NOTE: Hard Proofs can also be viewed as Soft Proofs.
•Soft Proof: This method does not physically output the proof to a printer. Instead, the job data is displayed on-screen. There are two types of Soft Proof:
•PDF Proof: A PDF Proof allows you to check results (flats or pages) on-screen, before the job is rendered. No physical output results are generated. One or more PDF Proofs can be included in your . This allows you to view the intermediate job data at different points in the.
• Proof: A Digital Film Proof allows you to check the raster job results (flats or pages) on-screen, after the job has been rendered. No physical output results are generated. You can view 8-bit contone data, and zoom in to view the more detailed 1-bit high resolution data (each raster point is represented by a single display pixel).
•: This method displays the job data on-screen in Raster Preview. However, in this case you have a preview of the rendered result using color management to convert the press color space to the monitor color space based on ICC profiles. With a calibrated monitor environment and correctly configured monitor profile, contract-proofing quality should be achieved.
You activate the color-managed preview by pressing the color managed preview button in the toolbar of the preview pane, or selecting its View-menu equivalent. By default the color managed preview mode is idle.
This is a licensed feature.
What is a WebApproval Job?
WebApproval is a web-based proofing service that gives users (your customers’ staff or your own staff) remote access to jobs for uploading documents, reviewing proofs, and approving pages.
Refer to the ProductionCenter
Help for instructions on how to use the WebApproval service in the ProductionCenter application.
What is Document-Based CMS?
Document-based color management uses input and output conversion presets to perform color management conversions on incoming documents. The color values of the document output intent are converted to values for the actual press output. The document output intent may be present in the document or you can choose to tag the input colors of the document using an Apogee preflight action list.
Refer to the following sections for more information about this feature:
What is the Layout Editor?
The Layout Editor is a workspace which has been specially designed to prepare layout jobs and use effective color management for printing on Sign & Display devices. It can also be used to create the layout for Unbound Single-Sided products in regular jobs.
Refer to
“Layout Editor” for more information about this feature.
What is the Product Editor?
The Layout Editor includes the Product Editor, a dedicated workspace for editing the images you upload in the Layout Editor.
What is a PrintSphere Job?
A PrintSphere job includes a PrintSphere Upload task processor as input in the plan. PrintSphere is a cloud service hosted by ECO3 that allows easy file transfer between the different collaborators of a job: customers, designers, remote sites, etc. For such jobs, you can invite an uploader to upload files for the job at hand, or collaborators can be assigned to the job when you select the company.
Refer to
“Inputting via PrintSphere” for more information about this feature.
What is WebFlow?
The WebFlow service lets you publish jobs to the ProductionCenter web portal where they can be managed by your internal users.