PRESS RELEASE

1 March 2003

London, England. — 1 March 2003 — Farrukh Systems announced today the release of the Windows 4.5 version of Imposition Publisher, their imposition software product. This is a major upgrade to the Windows product, bringing it into line with the functionality of the Macintosh version of Imposition Publisher.

Version 4.5 for Windows has a whole host of improvements and new features.

Flatwork is a new feature to the Windows version that allows different size pages to be placed on the same sheet for output. Flatwork includes automatic placement and layout features, step and repeat functions and automatic backing up of pages. It also uses the same customisable print marks and printing features as the standard impositions. Flatwork is ideal for printing of stationery, greeting cards and postcards with sheet-fed presses, where the key to profitability is being able to make full use of the available space on the printed sheet.

Print Marks have been given a thorough overhaul, with a significant number of enhancements over the previous version. There is a great degree of customisability, even with standard print marks. Custom print mark requirements can easily be met by using EPS files for custom marks. The positioning options have been enhanced, with an option to position marks from the edge of the sheet, useful for registration marks and other marks. The order that print marks print is controlled by their order in the print marks list, allowing you control to overlap print marks, if space is tight.

There are a number of other improvements to the product, including support for Coming and Going impositions for web presses, Step and Repeat print jobs, easy access to recently saved files, Drag and Drop File List and a more intuitive user interface.

Multi-User Client Server Option

Imposition Publisher is also available as a standalone program for Macintosh computers. There is also a multi-user Client Server option, with the server program running on Windows (NT, 2000 or XP Server) or UNIX (Solaris, SGI, Mac OS X or Linux). Clients can be a mixture of Macintosh or Windows computers. All important settings (print marks, device settings, etc.) are stored on the server, so that everyone in a multi-user environment is using the same settings.

Core Imposition Publisher Features

Imposition Publisher version 4.5 is built on a firm and proven foundation and includes all the best, familiar behaviour of previous versions of Imposition Publisher. It is an ideal choice if you are printing more than one page at a time, whether you are outputting to plate, to film or to a digital output device.

• Intuitive User Interface
• Straightforward Impositions. Impositions are independent of the pages being imposed, the print marks and the output settings. This means that you only need to maintain a small set of impositions and can often reuse impositions for different output devices.
• Automatic page reordering. It is only necessary to define the page ordering on one side of an imposition. The back is numbered automatically. This imposition can be used whatever the number of pages in the job, whether 4 or 400 pages. The page order on the extra plates is calculated automatically at print time, based on the number of pages in the job, even for saddle stitched and Coming and Going print jobs.
• Minimum user input required. The intelligent drivers ensure that the maximum information is extracted from the input PostScript or PDF files. No need to enter the finished trim page size, as this is calculated from the position of the crop marks in PostScript files or the TrimBox entry in PDF files.
• Easily updated. Drivers are regularly updated to accommodate new Desktop Publishing software, operating systems and printer driver changes. The most up to date drivers are available from the Farrukh Systems web site

About Farrukh Systems

Founded in 1988, Farrukh Systems Ltd. is one of the worlds leading suppliers of prepress imposition software. The Imposition Publisher range of imposition software solutions starts with standalone solutions on Macintosh and Windows platforms and extends to Client Server versions running on Windows or Unix servers with the same Mac and Windows clients. Farrukh Systems also produce Page Pairer, a newspaper imposition solution, with its unrivalled automation and management tools.

For further information, contact Farrukh Khan at +44 20 8207 4249.