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

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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.

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.