David Watson, industry visionary and founder of Ultimate Technographics passes away at drupa

With the mission to computerize the tedious and complicated task of imposition David Watson invented digital imposition 20 years ago, launching the first version of Impostrip at drupa 1990. Through his company Ultimate Technographics David has played an extremely important role in the industry’s move from analog to digital, eliminating the need of knives and tape in pre-press. Through partnerships with various pre-press equipment vendors David has made his vision come true, allowing the industry to practically implement digital CTF and CTP workflows as we know them today.

Thanks to David’s ability to spot industry trends, Ultimate is now set to revolutionize the printing industry a second time by fully automating imposition for digital print environments. While most of his ideas and insights live within the different layers of the company, David’s passing away represents a great loss to the company and the industry.

Ultimate’s executive management, under the direction of David’s wife Joanne David, will be taking over the leadership of the company ensuring continuity and growth for the vision and company David created.

For more information please contact Dorine Vanleke (dorine.vanleke@fourpees.com, +32 9 330 60 12)

About Ultimate

Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Ultimate invented digital imposition 20 years ago with the first release of Impostrip, and has continued to play a leading role in the market ever since in providing the most innovative and progressive imposition products. Over 30,000 imposition engines have been sold to date to OEMs, prepress professionals and digital printers around the world, and the company has a rich history of providing imposition technology into hardware and software workflow solutions for print industry leaders. www.imposition.com