The term “progressives” refers to printing any combination of the C, M, Y, and K separations in a multi-color document. If the Progressives feature is supported by your Fiery Server, you can use it to diagnose problems in a job.

Most printing processes involving more than one or two colorants apply the colorants sequentially. Traditionally, progressives are the intermediate states after some and before all colorants have been applied. The Progressives feature lets you select which combinations of colors to print (up to four per original document page).

The sequence for Progressives does not have to represent the actual sequence applied by the printer. A different sequence may be useful for analyzing the image composition.

With Progressives, you can see the influence of trapping, check the halftone interaction between two colorants, verify registration of two plates relative to each other, and see the color separation parameters (making it easy, for example, to visualize the GCR level when only the black plate, or all but the black plate are printed).

The Progressives feature shows the color separations used by the job when printed to the copier/printer. The feature is not intended to be used to proof for another printer.

You can configure Progressives settings and then select the Progressives print option when you print a job. The job is printed as separations in the sequence specified.

You cannot print a job with Progressives and Postflight at the same time. A constraint is set for these print options.

ImageViewer edits to separations do not affect Progressives. If you turn off one or more separations of a job in ImageViewer and then print the job with Progressives turned on, the job is printed with the values specified for Progressives.