Technical data

6-9 Imposition settings

Nested Saddle

—combination of saddle and perfect binding methods. As with saddle

stitch, pages are grouped together and stapled or stitched across a common center fold.

The saddle groups are then stacked one on top of another and glued as with perfect

binding. When imposing a book for nested saddle binding, you specify the number of

sheets in each saddle; this number is called a group.

NOTE: If you have selected a layout with more than two columns or rows, the Binding

selection will be unavailable. A layout with three or more columns or rows cannot be

bound as a book or booklet because the pages must be cut from the sheet, not simply

folded over.

Groups

You can type a whole number into the “Groups of” box to specify the number of

signatures gathered together in each saddle when the book is bound. As the number of

signatures in a saddle increases, the effect known as binder’s creep becomes more

prevalent. DocBuilder Pro shifts images on the page to compensate for creep

automatically according to the value in the groups ﬁeld, the value in the paper

thickness ﬁeld, the speciﬁed binding type and the ordering and orientation of pages

speciﬁed by the current layout.

Gang Up

To enable gang printing and disable binding settings, select Gang Up. In gang printing

mode, you place pages on the sheet in an arbitrary order for “collate and cut” ﬁnishing,

rather than having DocBuilder Pro impose them in the order required by a particular

binding method.

A collate and cut layout reorders pages in a manner that causes them to fall into easily-

collated stacks when the sheets in the job are cut into individual pages. The use of such

a layout may allow multiple small jobs to be printed on a single sheet; thus, gang

printing is commonly used as a means of saving paper when printing small jobs on

imaging devices that use large sheets.

When gang printing is enabled, choose Repeat from the Gang Up menu to repeat the

image of a page until the sheet is ﬁlled; for example, when printing both sides of a

sheet, the front side of the ﬁrst sheet is ﬁlled with images of page one, and the back side