HELIOS Remote Proofing Info

A proofing solution for many users and all production stages.

Proofing of images and documents for content and color is an ongoing process, from initial draft through final approval and production. Clients, designers, and print and web production teams must collaborate, often at a distance, to produce the desired product.

HELIOS provides versatile and certified proofing capabilities via web, monitor, and printer. Key benefits include:

• Printer and monitor proofs - now certified
• Local and remote proofing
• Web soft proofs
• Proof workflow
• Images and documents
• In-RIP separation
• Transparency control

Proofing is also about workflow.

HELIOS helps by making proofing easy. Getting a proof is as simple as saving images or PDFs to a Script Server hot folder, or to a WebShare volume, or printing any document to a PrintPreview print queue. In addition, job status checks and content verification of InDesign and QuarkXPress documents are readily accessed via WebShare previews, with no need for users to have the application, fonts, or images.

Visual proofing of PDFs is supplemented by the included PDF preflight capability, which can be used both locally or via web browser. Much of the workflow (e.g. processing of approved jobs) can be automated via Script Server.

Proofing accurately can also be pretty tricky. What about overprints and knockouts, and spot colors, and transparency? And DeviceN and in-RIP separations? What about output device properties? How about PDF support? Well, HELIOS PrintPreview is well suited for these demands and more. PrintPreview is an advanced software proofing RIP that accepts PostScript and PDF (via PDF HandShake).