Xerox DocuColor 2060 User Manual

Imposition Made Easy

Imposition for the Spire Color Server

Print On-Demand Systems Group

Creo Corporation

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Updated for CSX2000 Version 2.0

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Spire Color Servers

The Most Productive Color Servers on the Market

Spire Color Servers, driving Xerox DocuColor 2000 digital printers, offer a wide

range of unique and outstanding features.

Highlights include:

Extremely fast RIP, enabling proccesing printer at rated speed

Renowned Creo image and color quality

Easy-to-use Graphic User Interface

The most powerful Variable Information solution in the industry

This booklet describes and demonstrates another powerful feature of the Spire Color Server - Imposition.

Creo has joined with Ultimate Technographics, a leading imposition solution provider, to equip Spire users

with an imposition tool that provides superior power and flexibility without sacrificing simplicity and ease

of use.

Imposition made easy

Imposition Using the Spire Color Server

Imposition is part of the standard Job Ticket on the Spire color server. Simply double-click on

a job in the Spire color server workspace to enter the job programming window.

Then click on the Imposition tab, and you are there.

A job does not require any special preparation for imposition. It can be any type of job – PostScript,

PDF, VPS, PPML or VIPP. Moreover, the imposition parameters can be set at any time during the

job’s life cycle: Pre- or post-RIP, when the job is residing in the storage folder or the queue

manager, etc.

An important feature of the Spire Imposition solution is its ability to impose post-RIP images.

This means that the job’s pages are processed independently and the imposition lays out Ready

to Print (RTP), independent pages during printing, on the fly. That’s why imposition “fine-tuning”,

like re-setting the margins or the gutters, does not require re-processing.

Another important and unique capability of the Spire color server imposition feature is its ability

to impose variable information (VI) jobs. The user imposes VI jobs exactly the same way he/she

imposes non-VI jobs. During impositioning, the Spire color server places the variable elements

in their correct place on the paper, according to the imposition programming.

One of the difficulties of imposition programming is the relationship between the parameters.

Almost every parameter tends to affect the others, making it hard to predict the final result.

The Spire color server dynamic imposition thumbnail frees you from this limitation. Every

programming change that you perform is reflected immediately, allowing you to validate the

programming and ensure a successful print run.

Imposition made easy

Imposition is Easy Using Spire Color Servers

Easy to use.

No previous knowledge required.

A dynamic thumbnail view shows your selected parameters

on the printed sheet.

Preview your final layout on screen.

The system alerts you to incorrect parameters and prompts

you to correct them.

More than 20 predefined templates for your convenience.

Spire Imposition Features Streamline Production

Imposition is performed on RIPed files.

No additional RIPing time is required.

Crop marks are added on-the-fly during print.

No additional processes are required for layout changes.

No need to modify the PostScript files.

Imposition made easy

Spire Color Servers Offer Four Imposition Methods

Step & Repeat

Step & Repeat

A method used for printing multiple copies of the same

image, in order to fill a large sheet (e.g. business cards).

Cut and Stack

When the “cut and stack” option is used, and the printed sheets are

printed, cut and stacked in one pile, the order of the pages in the

stack is the order of the pages in the input file.

Saddle Stitch

Perfect Bound

A book finishing technique where the book’s pages

are stitched or stapled along the spine (e.g. brochures).

A book finishing technique where the book’s pages

are attached through trimming the spine, roughening

the edges of the gathered pages and gluing them together

(e.g. hardcover books).

Imposition made easy

Preparing an Imposed Job

Let’s prepare an imposed booklet using the unique imposition features of the Spire Color Server.

We will use the document you are reading now (Letter size), and impose every pair of pages on

each side of the printed sheet (Tabloid size).

Note that since Tabloid is exactly twice the size of Letter, we have no space for additional margins

(that can hold the crop marks) or gutters (the space between the pages). Therefore, in order to

demonstrate the complete functionality, we will reduce the Letter size document margins.

A further exercise can be to use a larger paper size than Tabloid (such as 12"X18" paper).

This will enable imposition of a full size Letter, including the required marks and margins.

Imposition made easy