Explore: Imposition (printing)

Imposition is one of the fundamental steps in the prepress printing process. It consists of the arrangement of the printed product's pages on the printer's

needed] The process of letterpress printing consists of several stages: composition, imposition and lock-up, and printing. In a small shop, all would occur

general commercial offset printing has largely been eliminated through the use of digital prepress technology, in which imposition software is used to "digitally

printer's proof and the imposition proof. Print-ready PDF files should be made after the layout using preflight at the printing house. The printer's proof

model. Imposition: if imposition proofing is done, combines the pages and marks on the imposed sheets. ImageSetting: specifies the actual printing of the

In printing, preflight is the process of confirming that the digital files required for the printing process are all present, valid, correctly formatted

N-up printing should not be confused with multiple column layout or the pre-press imposition process. The general availability of N-up printing in computerized

printed pages before binding. See Further reading for more on imposition schemes. As printing and paper technology developed, it became possible to produce

In printing, a stereotype, stereoplate or simply a stereo, is a solid plate of type metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould taken from the surface

typesetting, a forme (or form) is imposed by a stoneman working on a flat imposition stone when they assemble the loose components of a page (or number of