FirstPROOF Professional is a powerful color accurate prepress soft-proofing workflow product built on top of FirstPROOF Standard that includes a larger tool set and significant additional features. When added to a Harlequin, Esko-Graphics, Presstek DI or TIFF RIP it provides a number of extremely sophisticated capabilities.

The color management solution in FirstPROOF Pro is a completely new innovative method for generating color accurate soft proofs, which is inexpensive, easy to use and fast; thus removing the need for hard-copy proofs.

The larger tool set provides specialist prepress tools for further checking of jobs, which greatly reduces errors. In doing so, users of FirstPROOF Pro can detect many more prepress problems before exposing film, burning plates or worse still printing pages, thus saving valuable time and money.

Among the additional features is the ability to rotate separations (for example when an extra 90-degree rotation has occurred), merge separations (such as P Blue CV & P Blue CVC) and the ability to also print.

Highlights

• High-performance remote (LAN) image viewing - pan, zoom, rotate and flip
• Job control - approve, reject, delete and output jobs
• Positional tools - coordinates, adjustable rulers, gridlines and guidelines
• Color tools - background paper color and opaque inks
• Modern UI - job hierarchy, job information, page thumbnails, navigation window and tooltips
• Measurement tools - distances, areas, screens (frequency and angle), color, density and barcode support
• Advanced tools - view black, ink limits, dot gain, tone curves, cylinder seam and duplex view
• Color-accurate viewing including a gamut check tool
• Page modification - crop, rotate, merge, knockout and clean
• Printing - separations, progressives or composites to any printer

High-performance viewing

At the heart of FirstPROOF is a high-performance viewing engine that is capable of viewing high-resolution data from Harlequin, Esko Flex (LEN), Presstek DI or any TIFF RIP. FirstPROOF allows the user to zoom in and out rapidly and to pan and rotate the view in real-time to see what has been RIPped in the job. Any mistakes or problems in the job are easily detected, allowing the user to guarantee that what is printed will be right the first time.

Job control

Jobs that have been viewed can be either temporarily marked as approved/rejected or permanently output/deleted. Annotation notes can be attached to each job.

Measurement tools

FirstPROOF Professional contains advanced, easy to use tools for measuring distances, screens, densities, and barcodes. These can be used to check details including: traps, overprints and halftone screen details such as frequency and angle.

Advanced tools

FirstPROOF Professional also contains powerful tools for checking other problems in jobs for example: the ability to apply dot gain, check moiré, verify ink limits, review cylinder seams and match front to back alignment.

Color-accurate viewing

One of the latest features in FirstPROOF Professional is a completely new and innovative method for color-accurate viewing of jobs, which is inexpensive and quick and easy to use. This feature significantly reduces or removes the need for slow and costly hard-copy proofs leading to further savings in time and money.

Page modification

As well as its soft-proofing capabilities FirstPROOF Professional also contains many additional workflow features that would usually be associated with much more costly systems. Among these are: the ability to modify/merge separations (e.g. P 123 CVC and P 123 CV) and rotate/mirror those separations where an incorrect orientation has been applied.

• Support for macOS 10.15 Catalina and Windows 10
• Ultra High-Definition (UHD) 8k Monitor support
• Faster localized roaming on screen
• 2-bit, 4-bit, and 16-bit TIFF file support
• BigTIFF support
• 64-bit PC & Mac application

• Search multiple RIPs to find a job
• View jobs from remote RIPs
• Unique Trap Black tool
• High-performance remote viewing – pan, zoom, rotate & flip
• Job control – approve, reject, delete and output jobs
• Positional tools – coordinates, rulers, gridlines and guidelines
• Color tools – background paper color and opaque ink

Operating systems supported

Windows 11
Mac OS X (Intel) 10.6 and up

RIPs supported

Harlequin RIP versions 3 and 4 with limited functionality
Harlequin RIP versions 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
Harlequin RIP version 10 (Multi-RIP, both 32-bit and 64-bit)
Harlequin RIP version 11 (Multi-RIP, 64-bit only)
Harlequin RIP version 12 (Multi-RIP, 64-bit only)
Esko Flex RIP (LEN format)
Presstek RIP (DI format)
All TIFF RIPs