METHOD FOR GENERATING A PROOF OF A PRINT JOB COMPRISING A DOCUMENT TO BE PRINTED WITH PARAMETERS AND SYSTEM THEREWITH

Method for generation of a proof job from a print job comprising one or more documents and zero or more job parameters, wherein the documents comprise one or more graphical elements, and a printer having setting and a printer state, the method comprising: determining for a graphical element that printing the graphical element will likely involve a print quality issue while taking into account the printer setting and/or the printer state; selecting graphical elements in the vicinity of the determined graphical element; composing a proof job comprising proofing graphical elements, and proof job parameters taken from the print job parameters or the printer settings, wherein the proofing graphical elements comprise at least part of the selected graphical elements, and/or a derived graphical element having an attribute that is equal to an attribute of the determined graphical element, wherein the attribute contributes to the occurrence of the print quality issue.