Ultimate is a 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 TechnoGraphics

Automation Drives Results

Automation drives results in printing. This is the foundation of all our software development and 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 has continued to play a leading role in the market ever since while providing the most innovative and progressive imposition products.

Today, Ultimate is a 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®

True Reliable Automation

Imposition automation at Ultimate means lights out, hands free, true reliable automation. If you are considering a digital or hybrid print environment, a web-to-print business, increase in profitability, and if you simply want to do more with the same resources, automation is the answer. With the increasing demand for shorter runs and quicker turnaround times, you have to think differently about imposition and finishing, automation drives results. Take a look at our different Ultimate Impostrip® packages:

Ultimate Impostrip® Pro

The professional imposition solution

Ultimate Impostrip® Pro eases you into the world of optimized imposition. It provides the professional features to manage an imposition workflow and take advantage of all you print equipment capabilities. Get full control over page position, bleed, page-spread, page scaling, marks and margins for best quality for digital printing.

Features:

  • Hot Folder Automation

Save your template information and preferences to your Hot Folder and use this to drop your files in as they come.

  • Origami Template Editor

By enabling folds and cuts, you can create what most prepress users would call a virtual ‘’paper dummy’’. Once this paper model is created, the imposition template will automatically be generated for you.

  • Job Barcode

Job Barcode for tracking and finishing.

  • Dynamic Templates

Allowing the use of the same imposition layout for multiple size jobs simultaneously.

  • Marks Profiles – New!

Defining sets of marks to be printed every time, at the exact location on the printed sheet.

  • Best Fit Automatic Layout

Automatically selects the best suitable layout among all your templates

  • And more.

Ultimate Impostrip® Automation

The reference solution for superior imposition automation and XML integration

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.

Features:

  • Easy connectivity to upstream system

Connects to MIS and web2print systems to capture job intent from job order and proceed with an imposition flow directly to the press.

  • AutoFlow: Ganging Automation

Groups various orders of different sizes and quantities, and optimizes the imposition layout for the press, automatically.

  • Dynamic Barcodes

Generates dynamic barcodes for finishing devices, automating the selection of finishing profiles and triggering actions on the finger.

  • Intelligent Imposition Agent – New!

Automatically selects the best layout for your job based on all templates, a set of templates or no template at all.

  • Banner Profiles

Automatic insertion of configurable banner sheets and banner pages with variable content and barcodes

  • Web-press imposition

Extensive options for web imposition to draw the most of high-speed presses with optimization schemes and inserting all marks needed for inline finishing including web sectioning reducing blank padding and grouping various jobs for web width optimization.

  • And more.

Ultimate Impostrip® Scalable

The flagship solution delivering maximum performance for the most demanding applications.

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.

 

Features:

  • Scalable Server Solution

Combines multiple servers to meet the highest performance requirements

  • Job Manager

Distributes jobs the most efficient way across all available servers, insuring maximum throughput

  • Additional imposition servers

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

  • Advanced stacking options

Batch files in an automated way based on optimising stacks of similar or different jobs

  • Multiple Template Agent – New!

Automatically chooses series of templates to create use for one imposition

  • And more.

Key Features

Ultimate Impostrip® 2019 is now on version 1.0.7 and includes:

      • 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

System Specification

Minimum Requirements:

Ultimate Impostrip® Pro

Ultimate Impostrip® Automation

Minimum Requirements:

macOS:

Windows: Intel Core Duo i5, 4Gb RAM, 250Gb HDD, macOS X 10.13 (High Sierra) Intel Core Duo i5, 4Gb RAM, 250Gb HDD, Windows 10

Recommended Requirements:

macOS:

Windows: Intel Core Duo i7, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD, macOS X 10.15 (Catalina) Intel Core Duo i7, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD, Windows 10 Pro

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