STAGE 6 OF 6
The Signature
Imposition, and the page you cannot move. This stage folds the pages into a book — page counts, bleed and the spine are locked at the press.
Lead piece
Imposition
Pages are printed several to a sheet and folded, so page one and page sixteen may be neighbours on the press. What that fixes about the book.
Read the piece →All in The Signature4 pieces, filed in working order
- P.24ImpositionPages are printed several to a sheet and folded, so page one and page sixteen may be neighbours on the press. What that fixes about the book.
- P.25The sixteen-page unitWhy page counts come in multiples, and what gets cut to fit.
- P.26Bleed and the safe areaWhat the trim takes, and the margin nobody should draw into.
- P.27The gutter of the spineThe one place on a spread the reader cannot flatten.