Prinergy Virtual Proofing System Plus (VPS+) allows you to preview the printed appearance of pages/artwork and impositions/layouts to identify errors before physical proofs or plates are made. Prinergy VPS+ software allows you to verify image placement and content, impositions and layouts, layered PDF versioning, trapping, screening, front and back registration, color breaks, overprints and knockouts.
VPS+ was developed to replace the original Kodak Virtual Proofing Software (VPS Classic) created more than 25 years ago. The code base for VPS Classic reached the end of its development life, and was not compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey and above.
To provide soft proofing capabilities for the latest Macintosh operating systems, Kodak TIFF Assembler Plus software was used as a code base into which the main features of VPS Classic were merged. In addition to providing a comprehensive set of soft-proofing and quality control tools for commercial offset, VPS+ also provides flexographic layout and powerful automated TIFF reformatting tools.
Some features of VPS Classic are not currently available in VPS+, but VPS+ is under active development and each new release of adds additional features and performance enhancements to continue to close the gap.
Kodak currently recommends that VPS+ only be installed on macOS systems which don't support VPS Classic. For legacy macOS and Windows systems, we recommend users continue to use VPS Classic until VPS+ has full feature parity. To support this recommendation, the Prinergy Workshop installer only installs VPS+ on macOS systems 10.15, 11.0 and 12.0. The Workshop installer continues to automatically install VPS Classic on all legacy macOS and Windows systems.
VPS+ Modes
Kodak Prinergy VPS+ provides two different modes, depending on your production requirements. These modes can be switched in Preferences.
Commercial mode provides a simplified UI familiar to VPS Classic users, and is primarily for viewing impositions for commercial offset quality control. Only Commercial Mode allows front and back viewing of impositions/layouts, with the ability to view imposition information, page edges, page numbers and type safety areas,
Packaging mode is primarily for flexographic quality control and creation of flexo plate layouts. Packaging mode provides additional utilities and reformatting tools for VPS, LEN and TIFF files. VPS and TIFF files can be recalibrated, descreened, scaled or combined into a raster PDF file for import into step-and-repeat applications like Pandora. These operations can be automated by use of Hot Folders. There are additional features for seamless layouts (in-the-round or plate-on-sleeve imaging), and slug-based layouts for corrugated flexo printing.