Xerox 2101 ST Digital Copier/Printer Leaflet

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 Chapters

This section describes the process of transforming an application-specific file into a 
bound book. Concepts and terminology are introduced to help you take advantage of 
all the features of DocBuilder Pro.

Printers and copiers 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. However, DocBuilder 
Pro, teamed with digital copiers, now makes it cost-effective to produce short-run, 
fully-imposed (also called “ganged-up”) documents.

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 allows you to 
image multiple pages on a single sheet, but the output devices it supports are digital 
copiers, rather than traditional printing presses. In this manual, the paper on which a 
job is imaged is referred to as the sheet.