producing a book with impositions   

I am layouting a book of 144 pages being printed digital on A3 folded to A4. 

Can you tell me please if a commercial digital printer will do the 
imposition for me? If so I would layout the pages on single pages from 
1,2,3,4,5 up to page 144 without needing to address the different page 
position in the imposition? 

Thanks
Stella

date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:52:00 -0700   author:   Stella

Re: producing a book with impositions   

Stella,

Don't ask this NG - ask your printer how they want it. Some printers 
want it as one file, some want 16- or 32-page sections, there's probably 
one who would want 144 different files (I had to work with one of those 
once - a real PITA.)

Mike

Stella wrote:

> I am layouting a book of 144 pages being printed digital on A3 folded to A4. 
> 
> Can you tell me please if a commercial digital printer will do the 
> imposition for me? If so I would layout the pages on single pages from 
> 1,2,3,4,5 up to page 144 without needing to address the different page 
> position in the imposition? 
> 
> Thanks
> Stella

date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:08:24 -0400   author:   Mike Koewler

Re: producing a book with impositions   

In article ,
 Stella  wrote:

> I am layouting a book of 144 pages being printed digital on A3 folded to A4. 
> 
> Can you tell me please if a commercial digital printer will do the 
> imposition for me?

Only the printer in question can answer that.  We can't speak to the 
abilities or price structure of any given printer.

If the question is, "Can a commercial digital printer do this?", the 
answer is "yes, a printer can do this".  But no one other than the 
printer himself can guarantee that he WILL do that, or has bought the 
capability to do that.


> If so I would layout the pages on single pages from 
> 1,2,3,4,5 up to page 144 without needing to address the different page 
> position in the imposition? 

Yes.  What you just described is called "reader's spreads".  When the 
printer arranges the pages of your document onto his printer sheets in 
such a way that it makes sense for production, he calls that "printer's 
spreads".

date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:42:01 -0400   author:   Elmo P. Shagnasty