Book Imposition
Each of the large sheets of paper shown in the photo below represents a signature of 16 or 24 pages that will be bound into the final, printed version of my new book, Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers. The book is due out in the next few months from O'Reilly, and is being printed in Italy. In the photo, these large proof sheets are laid out on my living room floor.
Imposition proofs are used to show how the pages of a book will be ordered on press, and are definitely not about color reproduction (there are other kinds of proofs that deal with color). When imposition proofs are done right (as these are), they show the printer has thought carefully about how the pages will be printed on press because images with strong color bias are located in "columns" on the same press form (each form represented by an imposition proof sheet).
Dennis Fitzgerald is the Production Editor at O'Reilly for my book. Dennis was kind enough to bring these imposition proofs over one night this week in foul weather, and to be carefully and meticulously sheparding my book through the shoals of production.
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That's interesting that they use color as a rule for page placement. I used to work on imposition software, and there were many other rules - generally regarding how the pages were cut and bound, and slippage due to the different kinds of presses, but I hadn't seen that one before.