With a Multi-Up product you can combine two or more book signatures on a single Fold Sheet. After printing, folding and binding, the bound block is cut in two or more products. Apogee Impose automates the n-up arrangement and optimizes the filling of the Press Sheet. The different types of marks and mark variables are placed logically according to the number of products.

Multi-Up is ideal for small products that will be printed on large printing presses to reduce press run lengths. Multi-Up is also used for the Come and Go binding style that puts different book signatures on the same Fold and Press Sheets to reduce the number of plates required to print a job. Alternatively, Number-up Come and Go (reversed) binding style can be used to reverse the page order and orientation of the book signatures.

Following icons show the possible Number-up binding arrangements. The color of the front and back sides indicate the page order and orientation of the book signature.

The Fold Sheet and Press Sheet nodes in regular Multi-Up jobs have 2 or 3 identical book signatures which are displayed in different shades in the main imposition windows.

In the Fold Sheet node you can see the actual number of pages in the book signature. For example 2 x 8 means the book signature has 8 pages which will be printed twice on the same sheet. Apogee Impose selects a Folding Scheme for 8 pages and not for 16 pages even though the Fold Sheet has 16 pages to be placed.

A Come and Go job puts 2 different book signatures on the same Fold Sheet and Press Sheet. In other words, there is no one-to-one relationship between the book signatures and the Fold and Press Sheets. The redundant Fold and Press Sheets are greyed out. Selecting a book signature node in the assembly highlights corresponding pages on the Fold Sheet and Press Sheet.