uStore Imposition: Cut and Stack

[John Davidson]

All:

I am trying to use the imposition within uStore and I am finding that its not meeting the expectation that I would have thought. We have been using XMPie for a number of years, but wanted to create a workflow that was strictly hands off and did not include the use of a third-party workflow such as Freeflow or Pitstop Switch. We wanted to take a product (postcards for example) and create a workflow where a 4-up layout would be sent to production facility in a Cut and Stack format.

Definition of Cut and Stack: Pages can also be used by the Cut and Stack Imposition. The first sheet will contain page no. 1, the second one will contain page no. 2 etc. After all sheets are done, the following page is placed on the next position on the first page and so on. When these sheets are printed blocks of pages are obtained and when these blocks are placed upon each other they are already in the right order and there is no need for further sorting. Cut & Stack imposition is suitable for example for multiple brochure printing on a digital printer of a bigger format or numbered tickets printing. This feature is also very useful for personalized print.

Example of GIF to the left.

Is there no way to achieve this? Isn't that the point of it? I saw one post that said that you needed to release the job as ALL COPIES. I have tried all the various ways that I can think of. Is there something in the job that I need to mark for this to work right or do I need to use another third-party application to achieve my results?

Best, John

[west-digital.fr]

Nice GIF! ;-)

In my understanding, the uProduce (not uStore) imposition schema should do what you want, given that there are several records in the Data Source (I don't remember I ever composed a 40-page InDesign file with 1-record Data Source, thou).

One thing you maybe missed is that, your "template" uProduce job (the one you mention the job ID, when you setup your uStore product) should be run with this imposition schema enabled - as its job ticket is copied into the uStore system, in order to be re-used, each time a uStore order is processed.

west-digital.fr

[John Davidson]

Thanks for the fast reply. Triple Checked everything and all items are set correctly. Re-established the template job again. Still does a cut and stack with the same name on all 4.

Best, John

[eko...@gmail.com]

Hi John,

I had a couple of ideas...

I suggest to check the document settings in InDesign to ensure Facing Pages is unchecked because XMPie will ignore imposition instructions when facing pages are enabled.

Also, in some of the older versions of uCreate imposition is not supported with Visibility Spreads. Check the document to see if the document has page rules applied.

And lastly, after you set your job ticket in uStore Admin, be sure to place a brand new order in the user interface vs reprocessing a job in the Orders tab.

Hope that helps or that you already found a solution.