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Need a imposition software. New to this..


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knox13



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Need a imposition software. New to this..

I am just starting work at a small print shop. The files we get are mainly business cards or envelopes, or 8.5x11 newsletters. Example=The employees open a business card in Quark or Indesign and make a new template in a new document for our 13.5x22 poly plate maker 4 up. (if it is in InDesign they use that template, and if it is a quark document they open in a Quark template ) Then they copy and paste the file to the new layout and send it along. They use both Indesign and Quark and have a hard time keeping the templates right. What is there out there to help us. thanks

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ClevelandPrinter



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Most of the PrePress companies (Kodak, Heidelberg, etc) have an imposition software that they sell. If you have the money and time to learn, then go for it. Preps is probably the most used. Sorry about the short reply, but busy as can be today

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I'm betting Preps is overkill for you. For your needs, I'd download a trial of Quark Print Collection. It has an imposition tool for both QuarkXPress and Adobe Acrobat. It's fairly limited, but would probably do everything you need for $299. Preps is a LOT more than that. There are a couple of others that are cheaper than Preps, but I don't think there's anything that would fil you needs for anywhere near the price of Print Collection. It does the imposition directly from Quark, but for InDesign you need to export as PDF and do the imposition in Acrobat.

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Brian



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You may want to try a demo of Quite Imposing if you work in Acrobat

www.quite.com

We were reluctant to purchase at first, but honestly it has paid for itself many times over because of the amount of time saved.

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Preps is hard to learn but has an amzing amount to features. Quite Impositing has a way to build an imposition, then record the steps, then apply these steps to other impositions. I personally use PDF Snake, but my imposition requirements are quite simple - in my simple world, it is all cut sheet 4 up type work for digital printing (on demand books). I have created an excel spread sheet that enables the user to enter the book page size and then the imposed page size and it figures out the settings automatically - i tried to learn Python well enough to have it convert it auto-magically but i am too stupid apparently.
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