Imposition

In order to read, print out of order. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4 ... that's the order in which we read a book or newsletter. But is that the way we print them? Not always. Learn how to impose your pages to create printers spreads that become readers spreads.

Knowing how commercial printers position your pages for printing can be an important planning factor when it comes to adding color and spreading graphics across a 2-page spread.

Reduce the cost of four-color process printing by where you place your color images.

Reduce the cost of adding a third color to a job.

Try one of these utilities or plug-ins for putting your pages in proper printing order.

For Mac users, try these programs for imposing your pages.

A brief explanation of these terms from My Design Primer.

This tutorial uses ALAP InBooklet to turn readers spreads into printers spreads.

This tutorial uses ALAP's Imposer XTension.