Xerox 550, 560 manual Production workflows, Printing using imposition, Imposition methods, See also

8 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.

See also:

Imposition tab in the job parameters window on page 94

Imposition methods

The CX print server provides several imposition methods.

Imposition method	Description
Step and repeat	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.
Step and continue	This method enables you to place
	different pages of a job on one sheet
	so that the sheet is filled to capacity.