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If a printer asked a designer to do the imposition, I would find another printer.
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That's pretty much what I advise too. The problems arise when one can only afford to work with a small printer that doesn't have a prepress department or there is nobody else in the area.
I am on the designer side of production and I always like to give my printers artwork that will give very little to do. The printer I use mainly is one I like to work with as they do their prepress jobs well (and print well too obviously). No "can you do the imposition" questions.
They do have a B2 press and an A3 press and sometimes I don't know where my jobs go. Once I had a web(press) job to do and that is another story all together. I think that if a designer can give a job to a printer that doesn't require any intervention a part from doing the imposition and RIPping the file (and relink all the graphics and stuff if the file wasn't a PDF), then he has done his job. If the printer can't take it from there, then the printer isn't doing the job.
But if a printer has to do more than that, then the designer should re-evaluate what he is doing.
