Order sizes have shrunk from tens of thousands, if not millions, to a few hundred or even single copies for on-demand online orders.
Broadly it can be categorised in three production methods, depending on the number of copies:
- High-volume books: Printed on sheetfed and web offset presses
- On-demand books: Typically produced digitally, in this segment the number of copies is a in low double digits
- Book-of-one: Exclusively printed digitally, these are typically one or two copies of a book that was ordered online
It is obvious that it's changing consumer habits combined with innovations in printing software and hardware that has made short-run book production viable. The question is, has imposition and layout preparation software kept pace?
Imposition software by InSoft Automation is the one and only cost-based imposition software for producing one to one-million copies. Our bespoke logics, perfected over a decade, automates the following steps:
- Selection of the suitable signatures
- Assembling the signatures in correct order
- Choosing the most optimal sheet size or web/roll width
- Optimising the repeat length for roll-fed inkjets
- Selects precise print style in terms of sheet size, work and turn and/or perfecting
- Selects the most economical press to print from your battery
All the above fully-automated steps are interconnected. The software considers these steps simultaneously and generates efficient, accurate layouts, consistently.
Signature and cover ganging, parametric web signatures, right and top spine books are some of the breakthrough innovations in automating imposition by InSoft Automation, to discover how we can help boost your productivity, visit insoftautomation.com
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