MONTREAL, Canada — April 27, 2026 — Ultimate Tech, world-class leader in Imposition, Nesting and Finishing Automation Software, announces the release of Ultimate Impostrip® 2026.1 – built for next-gen print operations and focuses on fuelling automation. With this new version, Ultimate Tech continues to push boundaries and delivers new functionality such as SmartRoll production ready optimization, 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 our 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, saddle stitching, 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 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,’ says Masataka Sakai, Lead Workflow Analyst at Ultimate Tech. “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. Contact your Ultimate Impostrip representative for release packaging, deployment guidance, and upgrade planning.