HP Designjet 5100 Printer series - Manual (Page 67)

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Manage the prints
HP Designjet 5100 printer Customer Reference Guide
Nesting pages
What is nesting?
Nesting means placing pages side-by-side on the paper (rather than one
after the other), to avoid wasting paper.
Refer to Which pages qualify for nesting?, on page 9 .
When does the printer try to nest pages?
When all the following are true:
„ The printer is loaded with roll paper not sheet paper.
„ In the front-panel menus, Nest is ON.
Which pages qualify for nesting?
In order to be in the same nest, the individual pages must be compatible on
the following criteria:
NOTE: Selecting Nesting On overrides the Start Printing settings.
„ Color or grayscale. Either all are color or all are grayscale. Grayscale
may include a color page rendered in gray scales; see the ‘Using Your
Printer CD’ for more details.
„ For HP-GL/2 only, margin sizes must be the same for all pages (normal,
extended).
„ The Mirror setting should be the same on all pages.
„ The Rendering Intent must be the same.
„ The Color Space must be the same.
„ The Cutter setting must be the same.
„ The Enhanced Resolution must be the same.
How long does the printer wait for another file?
So that the printer can make the best nest possible, it waits after a file has
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