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Imposition Solutions

Fusion systems offers a complete range of imposition solutions that can be used with most any Film, Plate or Digital Imaging Device. The Ultimate Companion to any RIP or digital front-end.  These Powerful Imposition solutions are designed to meet Any Type of production requirement, no matter how basic or complex.  

Ultimate Impostrip - Future-proof Your Imposition Software

Automation Drives Results. today, Print Service Providers worldwide benefit from increased productivity in a digital and hybrid environment. Ultimate TechnoGraphics invented digital imposition with the first release of Ultimate Impostrip® in 1989, and have continued to play a leading role in the market ever since while providing the most innovative and progressive imposition products.

Today, Ultimate is the world’s leader in imposition and finishing automation software solutions. The company has a rich history of providing and integrating imposition technologies into hardware and software workflow solutions for print industry leaders.

Ultimate Impostrip® optimizes every aspect of your prepress imposition workflow with tools that are easy-to-use yet extremely versatile. It manages everything that has to do with imposition and automating imposition specifically. Ultimate Impostrip® is dynamic yet extremely versatile and a reliable way to automate imposition workflows.

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Imposition Automation at Ultimate means lights out, hands free, true reliable automation. Designed with productivity in mind, Ultimate Impostrip® optimizes every aspect of your prepress imposition workflow with tools that are easy-to-use yet extremely versatile.

With the increasing demand for shorter runs and quicker turnaround times, you have to think differently about imposition and finishing, automation drives results.  

Key Features:

•Hot Folder Automation •Origami Template Editor •Best Fit Automatic Layout

•AutoFlow: Ganging Automation •Intelligent Imposition Agent •Web press imposition

•Dutch cut templates •Multiple templates imposition •Repetitive booklets

•Dynamic barcodes and marks •Marks Profiles •Dynamic templates

•Banner sheets/pages •XML for Redirection •Universal XML Mapper

•Scalability and speed •Job Manager •Additional imposition servers

•Advanced stacking options


Intuitive User Experience

Enhanced user experience for efficient workflows

  • Modern look and feel in a redesigned user interface

  • Dramatically simple navigation, visual clarity and ease of use

  • Find the right information, fast with intuitive search tools that understand your data

  • Available in 10 languages


Reach high speed imposition processing

Boost the print powerhouses of the future

  • Fastest indexing and imposition times on the market

  • More power and memory for increased productivity and profitability

  • Scalable solution includes perfect management of imposition load balancing and allows for accurate job management.

  • Combine multiple servers to meet the highest performance requirements.

  • Distribute jobs the most efficient way across all available servers, insuring maximum throughput.

  • Add as much imposition power as needed to meet your production requirements.

Combine your offset, digital and large format operations

Your one-stop imposition solution for all your operations

  • Designed for digital, offset and large format print environments.

  • Open solution to centralize your imposition workflow.

  • Unified Mac and Windows Platform (64bit).

  • Easy management of Plates, Mixed Templates, Come and Go impositions, Ganging, Dutch Cut layouts and Bottling.

  • Automate imposition of irregular shapes with our true shape nesting module, or from our die library.

Smart and dynamic impositions for total automation

Experience true imposition intelligence for flat and bound work

  • Have a digital automated imposition employee at your service with the Imposition Agent and Multiple Template Agent

  • Automatically choose the best imposition, even for highly complex jobs

  • Dynamic trim page size, paper size and templates to remove manual intervention.

  • Dynamic marks, barcodes and banner sheets for maximum automation

Get your marks right everytime

For error-free print production

  • Populate text marks with dynamic data and meta data from XML job ticket

  • Upload marks for specific finishing devices

  • Control the dynamic position of text marks with conditions and anchor points

  • Design color bars with spot colors

  • Support all printer’s marks: cut marks, folding marks, registration marks, gripper marks, collating marks and much more.

  • Create marks profiles that can be used to apply a pre-defined set of marks to processed jobs.


Generate dynamic barcodes to track your jobs

Pass on data from prepress all the way to finishing

  • Customize the design of barcodes

  • Populate barcodes with dynamic data and meta data from XML job ticket

  • Create barcodes with specific requirements for finishing devices

  • Control the dynamic position of barcodes with conditions and anchor points

  • Supports all types of 1D and 2D barcodes: Code 39, Code 128 A,B,C, I 2 of 5, DataMatrix, QR Code

Gang jobs of different quantities and sizes

Maximize the coverage of paper and turnaround times

  • Produces the best gang run scenario of regular shapes automatically.

  • Automated rotation of pages depending on the cutter requirements

  • Minimize the blank space and extras

  • No planning or manual intervention required

Connect imposition to your management or web-to-print system

Create one integrated prepress workflow

  • Simplified XML connectivity with upstream systems

  • Pass customer and job information automatically to Ultimate Impostrip® through XML job tickets

  • 3 easy ways to send jobs to Ultimate Impostrip®: Manual imposition, Hot Folders Automation & XML job ticket

  • Seamless integration with Enfocus Switch

  • High usability ratings confirmed by users

  • No programming skills required

Future Proof your imposition by choosing the Ultimate Impostrip® package that is right for you.

Ultimate understands that different business have different needs, especially when it comes to imposition software. That’s why they now offer several versions of Ultimate Impostrip®, each of which can be upgraded as needs change.

Ultimate Impostrip® Automation

Designed with productivity in mind, Ultimate Impostrip® Automation optimizes every aspect of your prepress imposition workflow with tools that are easy-to-use yet extremely versatile. In very little time, you can set up a link to your MIS, your online photo editing system or web ordering system. Perfect for very short turnaround delivery on marketing campaigns, transactional and short run of books.

  • Dynamic Bar Codes - The more types of different jobs you take in, the more you will enjoy the reliability of Ultimate Ultimate Impostrip®’s dynamic barcodes technology.

  • Ganging Automation - True automatic filling of a sheet or a roll, with numerous different jobs of different sizes and of different ordered quantities. AutoFlow not only optimizes the placement of jobs on a sheet, it also optimizes based on finishing.

  • Easy Connectivity to Upstream Systems - To allow integration with virtually any third-party application, the XML redirection module is easy to use and trusted. JDF and Preparation Params are also used for this type of integration.

Ultimate Impostrip® Pro

Regardless if you are a prepress pro or just starting in printing, Ultimate Impostrip® Pro eases you into the world of optimized imposition for digital printing. It provides you with the professional features to manage an imposition workflow, to take advantage of all your print equipment capabilities. Get full control over page position, bleeds, page-spread, page scaling, marks and margins for best quality. 

  • Hot Folder Automation - Job Preferences and templates can be assigned to Hot Folders for any size job

  • Origami Template Editor - Easily create virtual folding dummies. Click Accept and imposition templates are generated automatically for you. Easy to use and incredibly intuitive.

  • Bar Code Identifier - Supports single identifier barcode for automation of finishing equipment.


Ultimate Impostrip® Pro Offset

Ultimate Impostrip® Pro Offset builds upon the features of Impostrip® Pro for expanded offset or hybrid printing requirements. Rich in professional features so you can manage all types of imposition workflows to better leverage your print equipment capabilities. In addition to full control over page position, bleeds, page-spread, page scaling, and margins Imposition Pro Offset also provides several advanced features.

  • Plate Management - Easily manage imposition layouts and marks sets for specific printing plates.

  • Mixed Templates - Impose Jobs using multiple templates to address unique imaging and bindery needs.

  • Multi-Web Impositions - Automatically generate imposition for multiple web presses. Imposition patterns and pagination are divided according to web presses for high-speed and high-volume print production.

Ultimate Impostrip® Pro Nesting

Ultimate Impostrip® Pro Nesting enables optimized imposition for wide format printing. It provides professional features needed for an imposition workflow that takes full advantage of all your print equipment capabilities. Get full control over placement of irregular shapes, registration marks and other marks, bleeds and margins for optimal fit, waste reduction and the best quality. 

  • Auto Nesting - Automatically optimize and create layouts for true shapes using AutoNesting.

  • Nesting from Die Library - Impose files from the Die-Library. Upload your own CAD files and populate the library with your own patterns.

  • Marks On Cut File - Apply registration and other marks directly on the DXF cut file.

Ultimate Impostrip® Must

In today’s reality, everyone must have a layout tool, there is no reason to drag and drop layouts in InDesign anymore! Ultimate Impostrip® Must is the easiest-to-use, most comprehensive layout and imposition tool, and you no longer need a plug-in either! Ultimate Impostrip® Must-Have standalone solution is available on MacOS or Windows and provides absolute simplicity in creating booklets, organizing step-and-repeat jobs, cutting and stacking, creating perfect bound books, and much more including producing multiple ups.

  • A Standalone Application - Not a Plug-in to Acrobat

  • Best Fit : Will find the best template for your job

  • Job Preview - View and validate on screen before printing

Ultimate Impostrip® Scalable

Ultimate Impostrip® Scalable is designed at resolving the growing bottleneck in imposition due to increasing job sizes and the increasing number of short runs that must be printed in a very quick turnaround time. Workflow requirements seeking for speed will always point to Ultimate Impostrip® Scalable.

  • Scalability and Speed - Scalable solution includes perfect management of imposition load balancing and allows for accurate job management.

  • Dynamic and Conditional Barcodes - The more types of different jobs you take in, the more you will enjoy the reliability of Ultimate Impostrip®’s dynamic barcode technology. The barcode tool kit for all digital print finishing requirements.

  • For Both Digital and Hybrid Printing - Manage and optimize both your digital workflow needs and offset imposition needs with Ultimate Impostrip®.


Contact us to learn more about the extensive list of features and options available with Ultimate Impostrip® professional imposition solutions.

The full automation from the shop order at least to the printing press is imperative for us.’’ says Holger Holzhauer, Technical Manager. ‘’It is the only way to react adequately to the increasingly difficult market conditions. With Same Day, Next Day deliveries and customer expectations at Amazon level, there is no longer any freedom to have data processed individually by employees.’’
NINO Druck GmbH Grows Digital Print Production with HP Indigo and Ultimate Impostrip® - HP Indigo Digital Press
— NINO Druck GmgH Grows Digital Production with HP Indigo and Ultimate Impostrip

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