Dictionary of Business Terms: imposition
imposition
- excessive and unwarranted request. For example, it is an imposition for an employer to ask an employee to work 16 hours a day to meet an unreasonable deadline.
- levying a tax or a fine on a specific item.
Dictionary of Marketing Terms: imposition
imposition
plan for arranging the images to be printed on a sheet so that the printed pages will be in the appropriate sequence when the paper sheet is folded; also called imposition layout. The standard imposition pattems are sheetwise, work-and-turn, work-and-tumble, and work-and-twist. In sheetwise printing, both sides of the sheet are printed by rotating the sheet, between impressions, moving the left side to the right, keeping the top and bottom edges constant, and exposing the second side of the sheet to the image carrier. All four layout plans involve some variation of rotating and/or turning the sheet between impressions.
