What a Fiery Impose alternative has to do
- Get the pages in the right place for saddle stitching and perfect binding, with fold schemes you can check before you plate.
- Keep the artwork intact: place pages as vectors, never rasterise.
- Cover the everyday layouts: n-up, step and repeat, cut and stack, gang-up and tiling.
- Handle creep, bleed and marks without hand-editing.
- Not get in the way: no plug-in to install into another program, no server to set up.
How Print Imposition compares with Fiery Impose
| Fiery Impose | Metre2 Print Imposition | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs in | Fiery Command WorkStation 6.5 and above | Your browser; nothing to install |
| Works with | Fiery-driven presses, best of all | Any press or RIP that prints a PDF |
| Booklets and signatures | ✓ | ✓, with a folding dummy that checks every scheme |
| N-up, step and repeat, cut and stack | ✓ | ✓ (cut and stack in Pro) |
| Gang-up by quantity | Gang-up layouts | ✓ (Pro): slots shared by quantity, plans compared |
| Offset work styles | Built for cut-sheet digital presses | Sheetwise, perfecting, work and turn, work and tumble |
| Job ticketing and press integration | ✓, with the Fiery server | A PDF job ticket and cutting guide (Pro) |
| Price | From $865 to $2,790 (subscription terms of 1 to 5 years) | Free; Pro £14.99 a month or £129 a year inc. VAT |
Where Fiery Impose is still the right tool
If your presses run on Fiery servers, Fiery Impose's link with Command WorkStation, the server's queues and its finishing options is hard to beat, and it fits into Fiery's automation. Print Imposition writes a standard PDF and doesn't talk to the press.
Price
The Fiery Shop lists Fiery Impose from $865 to $2,790, with subscription terms of one to five years, and it needs Fiery Command WorkStation 6.5 or later. Metre2 Print Imposition is free for booklets up to 32 pages on SRA3, 2-up, 4-up and step and repeat; Pro is £14.99 a month or £129 a year including VAT, with a 7-day free trial.