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Imposition settings
Groups
You can enter a whole number in the Groups of field to specify the number of
signatures gathered together in each saddle when the book is bound. As the number
of signatures in a saddle increases, the effect known as binder’s creep becomes more
prevalent. DocBuilder Pro shifts images on the page to compensate for creep
automatically according to the value in the groups field, the value in the paper
thickness field, the specified binding type, and the ordering and orientation of pages
specified by the current layout.
Gang Up
To enable gang printing and disable binding settings, select Gang Up. In gang printing
mode, you place pages on the sheet in an arbitrary order for collate and cut finishing,
rather than having DocBuilder Pro impose them in the order required by a particular
binding method.
A collate and cut layout reorders pages in a manner that causes them to fall into easily-
collated stacks when the sheets in the job are cut into individual pages. The use of such
a layout may allow multiple small jobs to be printed on a single sheet; thus, gang
printing is commonly used as a means of saving paper when printing small jobs on
imaging devices that use large sheets.
When gang printing is enabled, choose Repeat from the Gang Up menu to repeat the
image of a page until the sheet is filled; for example, when printing both sides of a
sheet, the front side of the first sheet is filled with images of page one, and the back side
is filled with images of page two; the front side of the second sheet is filled with images
of page three, and the back side is filled with images of page four; and so on, until all
pages in the job are imaged.
