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Basics of Imposition
This chapter introduces the basic concepts of imposition and can be used as an
introductory tutorial for imposing a document that will be printed as a book or
booklet. For more detailed information on the Imposition main window and its
components, see Chapter 4, “Using Imposition.”
Printing books with the Imposition feature of
DocBuilder Pro
This section describes the process of transforming an application-specific file into a
bound book; along the way, concepts and terminology are introduced to help you take
advantage of all the features of DocBuilder Pro.
Print engines that image documents on standard letter- or legal-sized paper at high
speeds are common in office environments. Although the image quality and output
efficiency of such devices is adequate for correspondence and office memos, they
cannot image jobs with complex document layouts, or those that require higher
resolution or a large number of copies.
Until recently, the only way around these limitations was to use traditional printing
systems to impose your document—that is, to arrange its pages in the correct order
and orientation for printing and a variety of binding styles. You might have used a
service bureau to access high-volume, high-resolution printers. Today Fiery technology
teamed up with digital print engines makes it cost-effective to produce short-run,
fully-imposed (also called “ganged-up”) documents.
Basics of imposition layout
Commercial offset printers and web presses use wide rolls of paper and large printing
plates capable of imaging numerous pages on a single sheet. For example, it is common
for such printers to image up to 32 full-size pages on a single press sheet, a process
inherently faster than printing a single page at a time. DocBuilder Pro lets you image
multiple pages on a single sheet, but the output devices it supports are digital print
engines, rather than traditional printing presses; in this manual the paper on which a
job is imaged is referred to as the sheet.
Appendix A:
Basics of
Imposition
