Imposition should be left up to the printer. The OP indicates a folded
signature would serve better because of the gluing is an incorrect assumption,
as the machine that applies the glue first removes about 1/16 at the folded
edge so the glue will come into contact with each leaf. Size of the signature
should be based only on what's most efficient in a particular shop. Printers
pay lots of money for imposition software that allows for creep and skew,
distortions that occur in the folding process, trim marks and edge marks that
make it easy to see if a book is missing a signature or has too many. I
wouldn't want to have to pay a printer to undo what he would have done as a
matter of routine.
Tom Connolly
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