Xerox 550 User Manual

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Production workflows

Printing using imposition

Imposition overview

Imposition is the process of positioning page images on a sheet of
paper so that when a printer or digital printing press prints the
sheet, the page images will be in the right order. It is part of the
process of producing finished documents.

In addition to page images, you can add various marks to the
sheets to aid the production process. These marks show where the
paper should be folded or trimmed.

Imposition does not affect the content of the individual page but
rather affects only the placement of the page images on a press
sheet. Imposition is a combination of content and layout. The
content consists of the pages that should be printed, and the layout
is the location of the page on the sheet, along with the page’s
printing marks, crop marks, and fold marks.

Imposition methods

The CX print server provides several imposition methods.

Imposition method

Description

This method is the most efficient one
when you want to print multiple
copies of the same image and fill
each sheet to capacity—for
example, many business cards on
one sheet.

This method enables you to place
different pages of a job on one sheet
so that the sheet is filled to capacity.