Intelligent automation for next generation print operations

Print Solutions

Ultimate Tech has announced the release of Ultimate Impostrip 2026.1 – built for next generation print operations focused on fuelling automation.

With this new version, the company continues to push boundaries and delivers new functionality such as SmartRoll Production Ready optimisation, DXF device ready output control, Traceability, and enhancements to the widely used XML for Redirection and XML+ automation interfaces with top of the line configuration controls. 

Ultimate Impostrip is an imposition and automation solution designed to help print and digital packaging teams prepare production ready layouts efficiently and consistently.

The new SmartRoll Production Ready capability is an imposition batching profile designed to maximise the use of the roll based on the length of the media used. This additional intelligence allows customers to maximise their media and reduce waste, while imposing and placing documents in the smartest method possible.

DXF Output is key to industrial printing such as wide format and digital packaging. Ultimate Impostrip now delivers enhanced functionality such as DXF Output for better traceability and separation level control, DXF file names added to audit data for maintaining an accurate audit trail, DXF Output per printed layer for multi-layer PDFs and DXF and output separations controls consolidated to drive cutting devices automatically and easily prepare die cutting plates. 

XML for Redirection and XML+ are widely used by customers to drive imposition seamlessly – nesting and ganging tasks automatically and this version includes some extensions. XML for Redirection has been expanded with automation for LaneFlow, saddlestitching, marks, and hot folders and XML+ now including new controls for bleed, template creation, and indexing, to further enhance the template-less and hot folder less automated workflow. 

Utilising this interface, the time to layout is reduced to seconds, and the time to imposition is, according to the company, the fastest available on the market today. 

‘The new version of Ultimate Impostrip 2026 creates real value for customers to leverage in their day to day operations including repeatability, ease of integration and auditability,’ said Masataka Sakai, lead workflow analyst. ‘Automation is key to print service providers and what we provide is beyond just imposition and nesting features, we enable true lights out automation and removing prepress touchpoints for easy or complex work mixes.’

Ultimate Impostrip 2026.1 availability and deployment is targeted for public release this spring.