imposition software?

[digi_head]

Hi,

Just wondering what y'all opinion on which imposition software to buy, i work in a fairly small print shop, with an AGFA Accuset 800, a Xerox Docutech and a Xerox Docucolor (Creo). Around $2000? Does Imposer Pro spot color separate Acrobat PDFs? Or any other that does?

Thanks.

:P

[jmiami]

Dude, you're getting a Dynagram, Dynastrip:
http://www.prepressforums.com/module...viewforum&f=40

also available, animated tutorials:
http://www.prepresstraining.com

[Akuma]

Bang for buck go for

http://www.quite.com/imposing/

[santa]

Avoid Dynastrip if you are new. Tech support is abismle, or shall I say non-existent. They want you to buy a $3,000 program, then they offer you a $149 web training course. Gee Thanks!

[Eyetech]

We've used ImposerPro since it appeared in beta, it's not perfect but for impo virgins its easy to use. It will handle 90% of what we need (our first imposition was 96pp! - done in seconds!)

You can try it free for a limited time here www.alap.com

And no I don't get commission, i just think it's good value.

Mac OS X
Adobe Creative Suite + ImposerPro
ApogeeX IRT
AGFA Palladio
Komori L428
Sprint 226P

[mur]

OK

I'm looking at Dynastrip or Imposition (http://www.imposition.com/)

I've been using preps for over 5 years and love it, However this will be for a small shop which I can't justify the cause.
Too bad there wasn't a Preps light or something.

Anyways anyone familiar with Imposition? I downloaded a demo of dynastrip and it seems a bit clunky (only had it only 30 minutes, so that probably is it)

The prices are similar any pro's con's

I'm looking for an Imposition Package, not a Quark or Acrobat Plugin.

Is there another fairly cheap Impo out there.

[Prathap]

Buy Xitron Navigator RIp as well as a postRIP workflow form Brainnew.
It can do magic.
Cheers!
Prathap

[pmkprog]

I had used Imposition in the past. About two years ago. It was okay.
I found that I'd rather just make eps files from Quark and create my own layouts.
If you are going to go directly to an output device, about seven years ago I used Presswise. I don't know if it still exists. It worked well at the time and seemed fairly similar to Preps, which I use now. You would place postscript files into the forms and then print the forms.

[pcmodem]

Originally Posted by mur

Too bad there wasn't a Preps light or something.

There are 3 versions of Preps XL, Plus, and Pro

XL being the cheapest and Pro being the most expensive.

Don't know if that will help or not.

Brian Cupp

[beermonster]

while the subject is imposition??

we do packaging here and typically they cram a sheet <b1> as full as possible. ours aren't nice rectangle pages to impose but cartons of all shapes and sizes, rotated and interlocking <flaps butting to side panels kinda thing, bit of a nightmare>.

is there software that will impose jobs to a sheet for this kinda job? I know prinergy has a module for that <pandora or something?> but we arent going to fork out on a workflow. we still do our stuff "native" as it gives us best control - almost all our work in needs some kind of ammend, whether to make it fit the cutter guide, design have made a flap the wrong colour or whatever.

at the moment we "build" a plate, mostly in Illustrator and some in quark.

It goes like this:

make page correct size - import/open multi-up cutter guide, and position accordingly on the sheet - import designs and position accordingly to it's alloted station<sounds oh so simple> - rip - proof ripped file - if approved punched film drops out of the imagesetter and it's straight onto a plate?if layout isnt any good adjust accordingly.

while this sounds relatively simple?huge file sizes?runaround issues, positioing is usually a fun sport, the usual kinda thing?

cheers guys