•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 imposition scheme. Instead, you may simply want to pack as many pages onto a flat 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.

•Hard Proof: This method outputs the proof to a physical proofing device, such as a Sherpa proofer.

•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 PDF job results (flats or pages) on-screen, before the job is rendered. One or more PDF Proofs can be included in your Production Plan. This allows you to view the intermediate job data at different points in the flow.

•Digital Film 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).

•Color-Managed Display Proof: 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.