The team at impositionsoftware.com have been hard at work recently.
Things to look forward to in the future:
- New features for current imposition software
- Brand new stand alone PDF imposition software
- Better support
Friday 30 September 2011
Updates for ImpositionSoftware.com
Hi fellow imposition software users!
The team at impositionsoftware.com have been hard at work recently.
Things to look forward to in the future:
The team at impositionsoftware.com have been hard at work recently.
Things to look forward to in the future:
Tuesday 26 October 2010
PDF imposition software
Affordable imposition software has been delivered to indesign customers.
But what about people Who don't have indesign? What about the quirky quark folk.
Well watch this space your PDF impassion solution is on it's way
But what about people Who don't have indesign? What about the quirky quark folk.
Well watch this space your PDF impassion solution is on it's way
Monday 13 September 2010
InDesign Imposition CS5
Wow, it's been a while since we've blogged.
However, with a new focus on customers, we at impositionsoftware.com want to connect to you guys a lot more.
So, the InDesign Imposition Software now supports Adobe InDesign CS5. Check us out at www.impositionsoftware.com.
The plug-in also has some new features, including scale, color bars and perfect bound signatures.
We are looking forward to your feedback!
However, with a new focus on customers, we at impositionsoftware.com want to connect to you guys a lot more.
So, the InDesign Imposition Software now supports Adobe InDesign CS5. Check us out at www.impositionsoftware.com.
The plug-in also has some new features, including scale, color bars and perfect bound signatures.
We are looking forward to your feedback!
Saturday 7 June 2008
New Imposition Software for InDesign supports MAC
The InDesign Imposition Plugin is an imposition solution specifically designed to automate digital printing. It provides you with the professional features to manage an imposition workflow at a fraction of the cost of more expensive solutions. The useful plug-in includes full control over page position, bleeds, page-spread, crop marks and booklet impositon. Regardless if you are a prepress pro or just starting in digital printing, this plug-in eases you into the world of imposition.
The InDesign Imposition Plugin will help you increase the quality of each print, making you more profitable. You will have “peace of mind” by insuring consistency from one project to another without the operator’s intervention. It provides you with production efficiency to deliver short runs on time, all the time.
Profit from the beginning!
The simple, user-friendly interface makes it possible to learn using the software step-by-step while you are actually creating impositions in a production environment. This way you can use almost the full potential of the plug-in without spending hours with examining the manual.
Work without limits!
Our primary goal during the development was to create a software which can turn your creative dreams into professional printer spreads. Imposition sheet size and pages per sheet is only limited by InDesign and free memory!
Imposition has never been so easy!
Who said you must be a rocket scientist to create impositions? We think you need a software which concentrates on the final product instead of the technical spiel. You need a software which has a friendly, clear and easy to use user interface. You need a software what you can use intuitively without the manual. For your imposition needs you need the InDesign Imposition Plug-in!
Main Features
• Unlimited: 1, 1000, or 100000 sheets in one imposition
• Step and repeat impositions
• Sheet size is only limited by InDesign and free memory
• Automatic sheet size calculation
• Saddle-stitch booklets
www.impositionsoftware.com
Saturday 24 May 2008
Graphic Designers: spreads, signatures and imposition software
If you have a designer using InDesign that has a good understanding of how spreads, signatures and imposition software work, you are likely to save time and money when it comes time work with a printer.
There are essentially two types of spreads in the printing world; reader spreads and printer spreads. When you open a magazine that's stapled in the center, you will notice page two is opposite page three. This is an example of a reader's spread: what the reader sees. The two pages are not part of the same piece of paper but they appear across from one another. 
If you take the staples out of the magazine, you'll see that page two is actually connected to another page at the back of the magazine. This is called a printer spread; it's what a printer prints. When the magazine was printed, these pages were printed next to each other, folded and then stapled so that you received a magazine bound in the center.
If a designer provides a printer with reader spreads, the printer will have to manually change the page order to printer spreads. This will cost time and money and will increase the chances of having a problem with the project. Designers should always provide printer's spreads to a printer. Keep in mind that, for saddle-stitched jobs, your pages should be in increments of four. If not, you may end up with some blank pages in the back of your project.
A signature refers to the group of pages that are printed on the same sheet of paper. The paper is then cut and trimmed down to the finished page size. The number of pages on a signature depends on your page size and the size of the printer's sheet or roll of paper.
Imposition refers to the placement and direction of pages in a signature. Some pages may appear upside down or backwards but, once it's folded and cut, the pages will be in their proper position and sequence. A printer would set up a signature's imposition. Printers with InDesign use sophisticated imposition software such as the InDesign Imposition Plug-in to arrange the pages as they wish.
Thursday 6 March 2008
How imposition software work
If you want to save a lot of time and money when you work with a printer, it's best to make sure you have a designer that has a good understanding of how spreads, signatures and imposition software work. Imposition software is available as plug-ins to popular design software such as Adobe InDesign (e.g. InDesign Imposition Plugin) or standalone programs (e.g. PDF Snake)
There are basically two kinds of spreads in the printing world; reader spreads and printer spreads. When you open a magazine that's saddle-stitched (stapled in the center), page two is across from page three. You are looking at a reader's spread; it's what the reader sees. The two pages are not part of the same piece of paper but they appear across from one another.
If you take the staples out of the magazine, you'll see that page two is actually connected to another page at the back of the magazine. This is called a printer spread; it's what a printer prints. When the magazine was printed, these pages were printed next to each other, folded and then stapled so that you received a magazine bound in the center.
If a designer provides a printer with reader spreads, the printer will have to manually change the page order to printer spreads. This will cost time and money and will increase the chances of having a problem with the project. Designers should always provide printer's spreads to a printer. Keep in mind that, for saddle-stitched jobs, your pages should be in increments of four. If not, you may end up with some blank pages in the back of your project.
A signature refers to the group of pages that are printed on the same sheet of paper. The paper is then cut and trimmed down to the finished page size. The number of pages on a signature depends on your page size and the size of the printer's sheet or roll of paper.
Imposition refers to the placement and direction of pages in a signature. Some pages may appear upside down or backwards but, once it's folded and cut, the pages will be in their proper position and sequence. A printer would set up a signature's imposition.
There are basically two kinds of spreads in the printing world; reader spreads and printer spreads. When you open a magazine that's saddle-stitched (stapled in the center), page two is across from page three. You are looking at a reader's spread; it's what the reader sees. The two pages are not part of the same piece of paper but they appear across from one another.
If you take the staples out of the magazine, you'll see that page two is actually connected to another page at the back of the magazine. This is called a printer spread; it's what a printer prints. When the magazine was printed, these pages were printed next to each other, folded and then stapled so that you received a magazine bound in the center.
If a designer provides a printer with reader spreads, the printer will have to manually change the page order to printer spreads. This will cost time and money and will increase the chances of having a problem with the project. Designers should always provide printer's spreads to a printer. Keep in mind that, for saddle-stitched jobs, your pages should be in increments of four. If not, you may end up with some blank pages in the back of your project.
A signature refers to the group of pages that are printed on the same sheet of paper. The paper is then cut and trimmed down to the finished page size. The number of pages on a signature depends on your page size and the size of the printer's sheet or roll of paper.
Imposition refers to the placement and direction of pages in a signature. Some pages may appear upside down or backwards but, once it's folded and cut, the pages will be in their proper position and sequence. A printer would set up a signature's imposition.
Sunday 9 December 2007
What is Imposition software?
What is Imposition software?
Ever wonder how books, magazines and newspaper are printed? They don’t just pop out of the printer like you and I would print a web page off our home printer.
Imposition Software carries out the most important task in the printing industry. Print operators will print books using huge sheets of paper, to be folded later. This allows for faster printing and lower production costs. Imposition is the process of arranging pages correctly prior to printing so that they fold in the correct order. To someone unfamiliar with the imposition process, the pages may seem to be arranged randomly; but after printing, the paper is folded, bound and trimmed. If correctly imposed, the pages should all appear in the correct orientation and readable sequence.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition for examples.
In recent years, the process of imposition has been automated by computers and is sometimes called digital stripping. Digital imposition was invented in 1988 by Ultimate Technographics Inc[citation needed]. An entire book may be imposed and many complex functions applied in an instant. Binding options may be changed on the fly and impositions produced to multiple output devices at once, often with no user-intervention at all. There are several different approaches to digital imposition.
In the design application. If a software package can be used to design single pages, it can often be used to design entire printed sheets, sometimes by a process as simple as copy/paste onto a larger sheet. This is still in use, especially for low volumes of work, but a popular alternative is an imposition function built in, or added in, to the design tool. This would typically take a document prepared as single pages, and create a new document with much larger pages containing full sheet layouts. This larger layout could then be printed to film or plate, as normal.
Post-design imposition might take a PostScript or PDF file in single pages, and produce a new PostScript or PDF file with sheet layouts, which could then be printed. A variation of this would take a large number of files as input, each containing a single page. This is especially suitable for a magazine or newspaper where pages may be worked on by different groups at the same time.
Print driver imposition would add functions to a printer driver so that the application program printed single pages, but what was sent to the printer was full sheets. This is not often found in professional production, but is popular for such things as booklet printing on office laser printers. A variation of this offers the ability to print layouts as an option in the application.
Imposition could be placed into the output device. This is sometimes called "in-RIP imposition". This allows regular pages to be printed by any suitable means, and the output device does the work of imposition. This has the advantage that the imposition can be specifically tuned for each different output device. However, it may for some have a corresponding disadvantage that there is no preview until the output is produced, which may be a costly printing plate that takes some time to produce, or even (with a digital press) finished copies; expensive mistakes are possible.
Where an imposition layout is viewed on screen, it may be referred to as a printer's spread. This is used to contrast with reader's spread, which shows a finished printed piece on screen as it will appear to the reader, rather than the printer; specifically, in a reader's spread for a typical book, pairs of facing pages will be shown side by side (e.g. pages 2 and 3 together).
Brought to you by Imposition Software
Ever wonder how books, magazines and newspaper are printed? They don’t just pop out of the printer like you and I would print a web page off our home printer.
Imposition Software carries out the most important task in the printing industry. Print operators will print books using huge sheets of paper, to be folded later. This allows for faster printing and lower production costs. Imposition is the process of arranging pages correctly prior to printing so that they fold in the correct order. To someone unfamiliar with the imposition process, the pages may seem to be arranged randomly; but after printing, the paper is folded, bound and trimmed. If correctly imposed, the pages should all appear in the correct orientation and readable sequence.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition for examples.
In recent years, the process of imposition has been automated by computers and is sometimes called digital stripping. Digital imposition was invented in 1988 by Ultimate Technographics Inc[citation needed]. An entire book may be imposed and many complex functions applied in an instant. Binding options may be changed on the fly and impositions produced to multiple output devices at once, often with no user-intervention at all. There are several different approaches to digital imposition.
In the design application. If a software package can be used to design single pages, it can often be used to design entire printed sheets, sometimes by a process as simple as copy/paste onto a larger sheet. This is still in use, especially for low volumes of work, but a popular alternative is an imposition function built in, or added in, to the design tool. This would typically take a document prepared as single pages, and create a new document with much larger pages containing full sheet layouts. This larger layout could then be printed to film or plate, as normal.
Post-design imposition might take a PostScript or PDF file in single pages, and produce a new PostScript or PDF file with sheet layouts, which could then be printed. A variation of this would take a large number of files as input, each containing a single page. This is especially suitable for a magazine or newspaper where pages may be worked on by different groups at the same time.
Print driver imposition would add functions to a printer driver so that the application program printed single pages, but what was sent to the printer was full sheets. This is not often found in professional production, but is popular for such things as booklet printing on office laser printers. A variation of this offers the ability to print layouts as an option in the application.
Imposition could be placed into the output device. This is sometimes called "in-RIP imposition". This allows regular pages to be printed by any suitable means, and the output device does the work of imposition. This has the advantage that the imposition can be specifically tuned for each different output device. However, it may for some have a corresponding disadvantage that there is no preview until the output is produced, which may be a costly printing plate that takes some time to produce, or even (with a digital press) finished copies; expensive mistakes are possible.
Where an imposition layout is viewed on screen, it may be referred to as a printer's spread. This is used to contrast with reader's spread, which shows a finished printed piece on screen as it will appear to the reader, rather than the printer; specifically, in a reader's spread for a typical book, pairs of facing pages will be shown side by side (e.g. pages 2 and 3 together).
Brought to you by Imposition Software
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