Prinergy Virtual Proofing System Plus (VPS+) allows you to preview the printed appearance of pages/artwork and impositions/layouts and 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 had 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.
In order to provide soft proofing capabilities for the latest Macintosh operating systems, the Kodak TIFF Assembler Plus software was used as a code base into which the main features of VPS Classic have been merged. In addition to providing a comprehensive set of soft-proofing and quality control tools, VPS+ also provides flexographic layout and power TIFF file reformatting tools.
VPS+ is still under active development and while there are still some functional gaps with VPS Classic, additional features and performance enhancements continue to close the gap with each new software release of VPS+.
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+ can operate in 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 printing quality control. Only Commercial Mode allows front and back viewing of impositions/layouts, and the ability to view imposition, 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 a host of additional utilities and reformatting tools for VPS, LEN and TIFF files. TIFF files can be recalibrated, descreened, scaled or combined into a raster PDF for import into a step-and-repeat application like Pandora. All 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.