InSoft Automation

The print industry has long been familiar with the imposition opportunity for book production, however as the sector has evolved so has the segments that can significantly benefit from intelligent ganging. Interest in intelligent ganging gained visibility as early as 2011, when Imp’s ganging module drew strong attention at what was then the EFI Connect user conference in Las Vegas.

The year 2020 was heavily defined by the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, worldwide lockdowns, and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s. In the pre-2020 decade in the printing industry, the focus was on utilising capacities that were built in the first decade of the millennium. Fierce competition and price wars had resulted in margin erosion. Digital printing was still evolving.

By determining the exact size and sequence of pages for the Gutenberg Bible, he signalled the beginning of planning and imposition. Gutenberg revolutionised book printing, with ‘imposition’ becoming the catchall term used for print layout planning for books. Of course, in the past five decades, terminologies like ‘step & repeat’, ‘interlocking’, ‘nesting’ and ‘ganging’ have gained prominence, primarily for non-book print products like packaging and labels.