Transcontinental Inc. last month rolled out FFEI Ltd.’s RealVue 3D Server Pro proofing and tearsheet software to power the printer’s Digital Workshop suite of workflow tools.

The server-based installation will support 14 to 16 of Transcontinental’s sites and will be available to more than 130 newspapers. In addition to its own newspaper titles, Transcontinental prints The (Toronto) Globe and Mail, La Presse in Montreal, and is in the midst of constructing a new Fremont, Calif., plant to oversee printing and postpress operations for the San Francisco Chronicle.

The technology, dubbed by Transcontinental as VirtualVue, will enable printing customers to obtain 3-D color proofs of their editorial and advertising content, according to Nicky Milner, Transcontinental’s vice president of premedia.