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Book printing has long involved printing pages out of order and in different orientations, so that pages are in the right order when the sheets (called signatur
by bloat 7y ago
Book printing has long involved printing pages out of order and in different orientations, so that pages are in the right order when the sheets (called signatures) are bound into the book. See an example here: https://www.formaxprinting.com/blog/2018/01/book-printing-lingo-what-is-a-signature/ https://www.formaxprinting.com/blog/2018/01/book-printing-li...
- specialist 7y agoNice explanation, thanks. I worked on print production software. We called that style of imposition "bookwork". I once wrote a small app that'd generate those book signatures. Answer a few questions (page size, sheet size, style of binding, etc) to generate the whole production plan. Sadly, my work (IP) was lost during a series of acquisitions. Then the whole industry segment imploded (ebooks, composite on demand printing, etc). Anyone wanting to do print production (eg litho) bookwork today would probably start with EFI's Metrix, which I've never seen or used. But I know the creator (Rohan Holt) and prepress is his thing. https://www.efi.com/products/productivity-software/imposition-layout/efi-metrix-planning-and-imposition/overview/ https://www.efi.com/products/productivity-software/impositio...