FirstPROOF allows you to quickly navigate and preview jobs, zooming in and out to check both layout and content from the design computer. FirstPROOF allows users to approve images and relase jobs from their design station. This is a great tool for the printing industry, where exposing film or burning plates can prove costly if mistakes are made in the job. Works with any Harlequin RIP from v.3.2 or later.

FirstPROOF Lite (FREE)

FirstPROOF Lite is a free basic pre-press soft-proofing product. When added to any Harlequin RIP it provides a simple means of tracking and viewing ripped jobs. The basic viewing capabilities allow users to view the actual ripped data that will be output along with a smaller view that gives an overview of a page. FirstPROOF Lite is built into FirstPROOF Pro, which runs in demo mode for 28 days before reverting to Lite Mode. In using it, users of FirstPROOF Lite can get an introduction into the significant benefits and advantages (in terms of time and money saved) that FirstPROOF brings. In addition, FirstPROOF Lite contains the ability to remotely monitor the status of your Harlequin RIP's Output Controller and Monitor, so you can tell when a certain job has finished outputting. FirstPROOF Lite is intended to be used either by itself, or together with FirstPROOF Standard and FirstPROOF Professional (for example a site might purchase a single copy of FirstPROOF Professional and use FirstPROOF Lite elsewhere). Multiple copies of FirstPROOF Lite may be installed and used; all for free. The following lists the key features of FirstPROOF Lite:

• Remotely monitor jobs on any Harlequin RIP with status indicators showing when a job is output
• View jobs from remote Harlequin RIPs (Mac or PC) using any Mac or PC workstation
• View either the actual ripped data that will be output
• View either composite pages or individual separations
• A navigation window that enables you to see the whole page and navigate quickly around the image
• Supports all standard Harlequin RIP pagebuffer formats, on all Harlequin RIPs from v.3.2 or later
• Supports all standard TIFF formats; (except for JBIG, 2/4/16 bits and YCbCr/CIE-L*a*b* TIFFs)

FirstPROOF Standard

FirstPROOF Standard $800.00

FirstPROOF Standard is an entry-level but powerful pre-press soft-proofing workflow product that allows for easy tracking, viewing and checking of ripped jobs prior to output. When added to any Harlequin RIP it provides a sigificant improvement in proofing jobs before output. The high performance viewing capabilities allow users to efficiently navigate around a job, zooming in and out to check the layout and content. In doing so, users of FirstPROOF Standard can check for basic prepress issues before exposing film, burning plates or worse still printing pages, thus saving valuable time and money. Amongst the many features is the ability to search for a given job (by name), see a thumbnail of the pages in a job, see the overall ink coverage of each separation (with either '0%' or '>0%' indicating a blank separation or one with just crop marks and color bars), view either a composite of the pages in a job or each separation in a page, delete jobs or separations that are blank or contain errors and output jobs that contain no errors. The following lists the key features of FirstPROOF Standard:

• The ability to search multiple Harlequin RIPs to find a given job
• Displays a thumbnail of each page and reports the Total Area Ink Coverage (TAC) of each separation
• View jobs from remote Harlequin RIPs (Mac or PC) without stopping output and prior to output (using Held Mode)
• High performance viewing and navigation of either composite pages or individual separations
• The abiltiy to zoom in and out, rotate and mirror the viewed image to check layout and content
• The addition of Grid & Guide Lines that allows for object alignment to be easily checked
• A unique Trap Black Tool that allows the user to easily check black traps
• Supports all standard Harlequin RIP pagebuffer formats, on all Harlequin RIPs from v.3.2 or later
• Supports all standard LEN and TIFF formats (except for JBIG, 2/4/16 bits and YCbCr/CIE-L*a*b* TIFFs)
• The ability to delete separations that are blank (or just contain crop marks and color bars)

FirstPROOF Professional is a powerful color accurate pre-press soft-proofing workflow product built on top of FirstPROOF Standard that includes a larger tool set and significant additional features. The larger tool set provides specialist prepress tools for further checking of jobs, which greatly reduces errors. In doing so, users of FirstPROOF Professional 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 occured), merge separations (such as P Blue CV & P Blue CVC) and the ability to also print. The following lists some of the key advantages and benefits of using FirstPROOF Professional:

• All the benefits of FirstPROOF Standard
• Color Accurate soft-proofing using an innovative, inexpensive, easy to use and fast method
• A large number of additional tools and features, including (but not limited to):
  • A number of Measurement Tools for checking distances, areas, barcodes, screens & densities
  • A View Black Tool which clearly shows any screen moire (or lack thereof)
  • A Max Ink Limit Tool (TAC) which indicates where a job exceeds a presses ink limit
  • A Duplex View Tool which allows for Front to Back registration of pages to be checked
  • The ability to rotate (by multiples of 90°) and merge separations (e.g. P Blue CV & P Blue CVC)
  • The ability to print a ROOM (RIP Once Output Many) proof of the separations being viewed to a local printer

Call (941) 925-1303 or email sales@rti-rips.com for more information on FirstPROOF.