True Reliable Automation

Features & Benefits

Key Features

• 1
  Standalone Solution

  No longer need to use a plug in to Acrobat, this standalone solution includes its own PDF library for the same price as a plug-in!

• 2
  Best Fit: Will find the best template for your job

  Ultimate Impostrip® analyzes all your templates and impose your job with the best one to maximize the coverage of paper.

• 3
  NEW! Job Preview

  Get a first glance at your imposition on your screen and validate it before printing.

Others Features

• Save various Job Presets for quick imposition setup
• Binding: Perfect bound, saddle-stitch, cut & stack, step & repeat
• Ultimate dynamic imposition capability
• Layouts Library

  Choose the template for your impositions among hundreds of pre-configured layouts.

• Place built-in printer’s marks automatically

  Cut (Crop) Marks, Bleed Marks, Folding Marks, Press Sheet Marks, Registration Marks, Trim Outline Marks, Side Guides Marks, Static Text Marks, Slug Marks, Gripper Marks, Color Bars Marks.

• NEW! Page, Sheet & Plate Libraries

  Save a list of preferred sizes for document, paper and plate.

• Bleed, Scale and Adjustments

  Options that will give you full control over bleed, automatic creep calculation based on paper thickness, page adjustment to shift your page and page scale.

• Automatic creep based on paper thickness

  You can’t produce a proper booklet without controlling the creep. With Ultimate Impostrip®, you will get automatic creep calculation based on your paper thickness. This will help you ensure the quality of your jobs.

• Automatically manage repeating booklets
• Full control over blank pages insertion in your impositions
• Margins and gutters control
• Intuitive user interface that guides you through the steps of imposition
• Powerful Indexing and Imposition engines for ultimate imposition speed.
• Native 64-bit Software
• PDF Trim Options: Trim, crop or media for centering and bleed control
• PDF Input
• PDF Output
• Several output options for your impositions

  Number of Copies, Collated or Uncollated, Job/File, Signature/File, All Fronts, All Backs, Manual Duplexing, Last to First, Backs before Fronts, etc.

• No output size limitations
• Imposition logs available for easy diagnostic of errors
• Job monitoring for report of live activities

  Ability to filter by job status, search by job number, pdf name and archive logs.

• Backup and restore tool
• Easy to learn and use in any print environment
• NEW! Available in 9 languages

  English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

• NEW! Available for Mac OS®X and Windows®
• Easily migrate to Ultimate Impostrip® Pro for automation and advanced editing

Optional Features

Ultimate Services

• Get custom functionalities for your specific needs
  Learn more about our Ultimate Technical Services and personalized training.
  View Services

Features & Benefits

Key Features

• 1
  Hot Folder Automation

  Save your template information and preferences to your hot folder, and use this to drop your files in as they come. Drop 16 page or 128 page job in the same hot folder and it creates as many plates or sheets needed to complete the job. You can create up to 2000 hot folders.

• 2
  Origami Template Editor

  Origami virtual paper folding is a feature unique to Ultimate Impostrip®. By enabling folds and cuts, a user can create what most prepress users would call, a virtual "paper dummy". Once this paper model is created, simply click accept, and the imposition template will automatically be generated for you. It is easy to use, and intuitive.

• 3
  Barcode Identifier

  Single identifier barcode for automation of finishing equipment templates such as Duplo, Morgana, and more.

Others Features

• NEW! Job Preview

  Get a first glance at your imposition on your screen and validate it before printing.

• Best Fit: Will find the best template for your job

  Ultimate Impostrip® analyzes all your templates and impose your job with the best one to maximize the coverage of paper.

• Binding: Perfect bound, saddle-stitch, cut & stack, step & repeat
• Ultimate dynamic imposition capability
• Powerful custom template builder
• Full control over marks

  Cut, folding, info ID, annotation, double cut, registration, page outline frame, paper delimiters for proofing. You can also have a text mark such as a slug line.

• Marks Profiles

  Marks Profiles allow creating marks definitions ''once and use many'', with any imposition job or paper size.

• NEW! Page, Sheet & Plate Libraries

  Save a list of preferred sizes for document, paper and plate.

• Bleed, Scale and Adjustments

  Options that will give you full control over bleed, automatic creep calculation based on paper thickness, page adjustment to shift your page and page scale.

• Automatic creep based on paper thickness

  You can’t produce a proper booklet without controlling the creep. With Ultimate Impostrip®, you will get automatic creep calculation based on your paper thickness. This will help you ensure the quality of your jobs.

• Automatically manage repeating booklets
• Margins and gutters control
• Full control over blank pages insertion in your impositions
• PDF Trim Options: Trim, crop or media for centering and bleed control
• JPG and PDF input
• PDF Output
• No output size limitations
• Several output options for your impositions

  Number of Copies, Collated or Uncollated, Job/File, Signature/File, All Fronts, All Backs, Manual Duplexing, Last to First, Backs before Fronts, etc.

• Imposition logs available for easy diagnostic of errors
• Job monitoring for report of live activities

  Ability to filter by job status, search by job number, pdf name and archive logs.

• Backup and restore tool
• Easy to use HTML5 user interface
• NEW! Available in 9 languages

  English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

• NEW! Available for Mac OS®X and Windows®
• Native 64-bit Software

Optional Features

Ultimate Services

• Get custom functionalities for your specific needs
  Learn more about our Ultimate Technical Services and personalized training.
  View Services

Features & Benefits

Key Features

• 1
  Plate Management

  Easily manage imposition layouts and marks for printing plates.

• 2
  Mixed Templates

  Easily impose your job using multiple templates. Powerful tool for book production to impose the cover and text block using different templates in one imposition.

• 3
  NEW! Multi-Web Impositions

  Automatically generate your impositions for multiple web presses. Imposition patterns and pagination are divided according to web presses for high-speed and high-volume print production.

Others Features

• Color Bar Editor

  Select the ink or spot color to print in the trim area and watch the color bar grows as you go!

• NEW! Dutch Cut Layouts

  Easy creation of templates with odd number of ups (ex: 5up) using Template Editor. Full control over margins and gutters for maximum sheet coverage.

• NEW! Ganged Pages

  Add pages of different sizes and quantities to your template to manually create an imposition with different jobs for gang-run printing.

• NEW! Page Bottling

  Adjust the angle of specific pages to correct the unwanted bottling effect.

• NEW! Job Preview

  Get a first glance at your imposition on your screen and validate it before printing.

• Booklet Configurator module

  To automate imposition of various size booklets in same job

• Hot Folder Automation

  Save your template information and preferences to your hot folder, and use this to drop your files in as they come. Drop 16 page or 128 page job in the same hot folder and it creates as many plates or sheets needed to complete the job. You can create up to 2000 hot folders.

• Origami Template Editor

  Origami virtual paper folding is a feature unique to Ultimate Impostrip®. By enabling folds and cuts, a user can create what most prepress users would call, a virtual "paper dummy". Once this paper model is created, simply click accept, and the imposition template will automatically be generated for you. It is easy to use, and intuitive.

• Barcode Identifier

  Single identifier barcode for automation of finishing equipment templates such as Duplo, Morgana, and more.

• Best Fit: Will find the best template for your job

  Ultimate Impostrip® analyzes all your templates and impose your job with the best one to maximize the coverage of paper.

• Binding: Perfect bound, saddle-stitch, cut & stack, step & repeat
• Ultimate dynamic imposition capability
• Powerful custom template builder
• Full control over marks

  Cut, folding, info ID, annotation, double cut, registration, page outline frame, paper delimiters for proofing. You can also have a text mark such as a slug line.

• Marks Profiles

  Marks Profiles allow creating marks definitions ''once and use many'', with any imposition job or paper size.

• NEW! Page, Sheet & Plate Libraries

  Save a list of preferred sizes for document, paper and plate.

• Bleed, Scale and Adjustments

  Options that will give you full control over bleed, automatic creep calculation based on paper thickness, page adjustment to shift your page and page scale.

• Automatic creep based on paper thickness

  You can’t produce a proper booklet without controlling the creep. With Ultimate Impostrip®, you will get automatic creep calculation based on your paper thickness. This will help you ensure the quality of your jobs.

• Automatically manage repeating booklets
• Margins and gutters control
• Full control over blank pages insertion in your impositions
• PDF Trim Options: Trim, crop or media for centering and bleed control
• JPG and PDF input
• PDF Output
• No output size limitations
• Several output options for your impositions

  Number of Copies, Collated or Uncollated, Job/File, Signature/File, All Fronts, All Backs, Manual Duplexing, Last to First, Backs before Fronts, etc.

• Imposition logs available for easy diagnostic of errors
• Job monitoring for report of live activities

  Ability to filter by job status, search by job number, pdf name and archive logs.

• Backup and restore tool
• Easy to use HTML5 user interface
• NEW! Available in 9 languages

  English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

• NEW! Available for Mac OS®X and Windows®
• Native 64-bit Software

Optional Features

Ultimate Services

• Get custom functionalities for your specific needs
  Learn more about our Ultimate Technical Services and personalized training.
  View Services

Features & Benefits

Key Features

• 1
  AutoNesting

  Automatically optimize and create layouts for true shapes using AutoNesting.

• 2
  Nesting from Die-Library

  Impose files from the Die-Library. Upload your own CAD files and populate the library with your own patterns.

• 3
  NEW! Marks on Cut File

  Apply registration and other marks directly on the DXF cut file.

Others Features

• NEW! Job Preview

  Get a first glance at your imposition on your screen and validate it before printing.

• Hot Folder Automation

  Save your template information and preferences to your hot folder, and use this to drop your files in as they come. Drop 16 page or 128 page job in the same hot folder and it creates as many plates or sheets needed to complete the job. You can create up to 2000 hot folders.

• Origami Template Editor

  Origami virtual paper folding is a feature unique to Ultimate Impostrip®. By enabling folds and cuts, a user can create what most prepress users would call, a virtual "paper dummy". Once this paper model is created, simply click accept, and the imposition template will automatically be generated for you. It is easy to use, and intuitive.

• Barcode Identifier

  Single identifier barcode for automation of finishing equipment templates such as Duplo, Morgana, and more.

• Best Fit: Will find the best template for your job

  Ultimate Impostrip® analyzes all your templates and impose your job with the best one to maximize the coverage of paper.

• Binding: Perfect bound, saddle-stitch, cut & stack, step & repeat
• Ultimate dynamic imposition capability
• Powerful custom template builder
• NEW! Page, Sheet & Plate Libraries

  Save a list of preferred sizes for document, paper and plate.

• Full control over marks

  Cut, folding, info ID, annotation, double cut, registration, page outline frame, paper delimiters for proofing. You can also have a text mark such as a slug line.

• Marks Profiles

  Marks Profiles allow creating marks definitions ''once and use many'', with any imposition job or paper size.

• Bleed, Scale and Adjustments

  Options that will give you full control over bleed, automatic creep calculation based on paper thickness, page adjustment to shift your page and page scale.

• Automatic creep based on paper thickness

  You can’t produce a proper booklet without controlling the creep. With Ultimate Impostrip®, you will get automatic creep calculation based on your paper thickness. This will help you ensure the quality of your jobs.

• Automatically manage repeating booklets
• PDF Trim Options: Trim, crop or media for centering and bleed control
• JPG and PDF input
• PDF and DXF Output
• No output size limitations
• Several output options for your impositions

  Number of Copies, Collated or Uncollated, Job/File, Signature/File, All Fronts, All Backs, Manual Duplexing, Last to First, Backs before Fronts, etc.

• Imposition logs available for easy diagnostic of errors
• Job monitoring for report of live activities

  Ability to filter by job status, search by job number, pdf name and archive logs.

• Backup and restore tool
• Easy to use HTML5 user interface
• NEW! Available in 9 languages

  English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

• NEW! Available for Mac OS®X and Windows®
• Native 64-bit Software

Optional Features

Ultimate Services

• Get custom functionalities for your specific needs
  Learn more about our Ultimate Technical Services and personalized training.
  View Services

Features & Benefits

Key Features

• 1
  Scalability and speed

  Scalable solution includes perfect management of imposition load balancing and allows for accurate job management.

• 2
  Dynamic and conditional barcodes

  The more types of different jobs you take in, the more you will enjoy the reliability of Ultimate Impostrip®’s dynamic barcode technology. The barcode tool kit for all digital print finishing requirements.

• 3
  For both digital and hybrid printing

  Manage and optimize both your digital workflow needs and offset imposition needs with Ultimate Impostrip®.

Others Features

• Job Manager

  Balance the load of input jobs and distribute it to the available imposition signature server.

• Advanced stacking options

  Batch files in an automated way based on optimizing stacks of similar or different jobs. This module is delivered with sets of selectable rules to comply with your workflow.

• Easy Connectivity to Upstream System

  To allow integration with virtually any third-party application, the XML redirection module is easy to use and trusted. JDF and Preparation Params are also used for this type of integration.

• NEW! Multiple Template Agent

  Allows to generate an imposition automatically by selecting the best combination of layouts.

• Hot Folder Automation

  Save your template information and preferences to your hot folder, and use this to drop your files in as they come. Drop 16 page or 128 page job in the same hot folder and it creates as many plates or sheets needed to complete the job. You can create up to 2000 hot folders.

• NEW! Imposition Agent

  With the Imposition Agent, the user simply needs to setup a hot folder for every product and sends jobs directly to these hot folders. Ultimate Impostrip® will then generate the imposition automatically by choosing the best layout for the jobs among all the templates or a set of templates that was pre-determined by the user for that hot folder.

• Maximize and automate web impositions

  Its extensive options for web imposition allow drawing the most of high-speed ink jet presses with optimization schemes and inserting all marks needed for inline finishing including web sectioning reducing blank padding and grouping various jobs for web width optimization.

• Ultimate dynamic imposition capability
• Powerful custom template builder
• Origami Template Editor

  Origami virtual paper folding is a feature unique to Ultimate Impostrip®. By enabling folds and cuts, a user can create what most prepress users would call, a virtual "paper dummy". Once this paper model is created, simply click accept, and the imposition template will automatically be generated for you. It is easy to use, and intuitive.

• Ganging Automation

  True automatic filling of a sheet or a roll, with numerous different jobs of different sizes and of different ordered quantities. AutoFlow not only optimizes the placement of jobs on a sheet, it also optimizes based on finishing.

• NEW! Ganged Pages

  Add pages of different sizes and quantities to your template to manually create an imposition with different jobs for gang-run printing.

• NEW! Dutch Cut Layouts

  Easy creation of templates with odd number of ups (ex: 5up) using Template Editor. Full control over margins and gutters for maximum sheet coverage.

• Bleed, Scale and Adjustments

  Options that will give you full control over bleed, automatic creep calculation based on paper thickness, page adjustment to shift your page and page scale.

• Full control over marks

  Cut, folding, info ID, annotation, double cut, registration, page outline frame, paper delimiters for proofing. You can also have a text mark such as a slug line.

• Marks Profiles

  Marks Profiles allow creating marks definitions ''once and use many'', with any imposition job or paper size.

• Booklet Configurator module

  To automate imposition of various size booklets in same job

• Automatically manage repeating booklets
• Automatic creep based on paper thickness

  You can’t produce a proper booklet without controlling the creep. With Ultimate Impostrip®, you will get automatic creep calculation based on your paper thickness. This will help you ensure the quality of your jobs.

• Provides on-the-fly collating marks placement
• Configurable banner sheets and banner pages with variable content
• Automate and optimize for CTP work
• NEW! Page, Sheet & Plate Libraries

  Save a list of preferred sizes for document, paper and plate.

• NEW! Job Preview

  Get a first glance at your imposition on your screen and validate it before printing.

• JPG and PDF input
• Digital Printer Profiles
• PDF, JDF LayCrimp and Digital Printer Output
• Several output options for your impositions

  Number of Copies, Collated or Uncollated, Job/File, Signature/File, All Fronts, All Backs, Manual Duplexing, Last to First, Backs before Fronts, etc.

Optional Features

• Additional imposition servers

  Add as much imposition power as needed to meet your production requirements.

• UICL – Ultimate Imposition Control Language

  Best combined with integration services, this allows to use 100% of Ultimate Impostrip®’s power as a complete black box solution.

• PassGate Photo Streaming Optimization

  Best-of-Class Solution for photo batching and optimization, including double sided barcodes and back side mangement.
  

• NEW! Offset Module

  The Offset Module unlocks advanced tools to maximize your imposition for your offset equipment, such as the Plate layout logic, the intuitive Color Bar Editor and the Mixed Template Imposition.

• PDF/VT

  True PDF/VT imposition workflow available for high volume transactional or variable data work.

• True Shape Nesting

  Automatically optimize and create layouts for true shapes using AutoNesting or impose files from the die library.

• JPG2PDF Converter

  High volume JPG to PDF conversion for the needs of your high-volume photo projects.

• AutoFlow Estimator

  Want true accurate gang run results for your MIS or production planning system? Ultimate Impostrip® offers an interface providing all the information you need to make smart decisions.

• Horizon SmartStacker imposition optimization

  Ultimate Impostrip® has a unique way to handle and optimize the imposition for the Horizon SmartStacker finishing equipment.

• NEW! Multicut Imposition

  Specific imposition scheme for the Imaging solution finishing device.

• Kolbus Imposition

  Specific imposition scheme for the Kolbus WF100 finishing device.

Ultimate Services

• Get custom functionalities for your specific needs
  Learn more about our Ultimate Technical Services and personalized training.
  View Services