HP Designjet 2500.3500cp Printer series - Manual (Page 177)

Managing Your Prints
Avoiding Media Waste by Nesting Pages
7-13
When Does the Printer Try to Nest Pages?
When all the following are true:
■ The printer is loaded with roll media rather than sheet media.
■ In the front-panel menus,
Queue is ON (the default). See page 7-5, What is the
Queue?
■ In the front-panel menus, Nest is ON (that is, set to either Optimal or In order ).
See page 7-14, Turning Nesting On or Off and Choosing the Nesting Method.
Which Pages Qualify for Nesting?
In order to be in the same nest, the individual pages must be compatible on both the
following criteria:
■ Color or monochrome
Either all are color or all are monochrome. Monochrome may include a color page
rendered in grayscales by use of the front-panel Color/Mono key - see page 6-10,
Printing Color Images in Monochrome.
■ Print resolution
Either all are 300 dpi or all are 600 dpi - see page 6-14, Print quality.
■ Print Quality all pages must have the same print quality setting (Best, Normal or
Fast).
■ All pages must be PostScript or all pages must be HP-GL/2.
■ Margin sizes must be the same for all pages (normal, smaller or extended).
Which Pages Cannot be Rotated?
Apart from obvious physical limitations on the roll, any HP-GL/2 page containing
raster data will not be rotated.
Also Post script files are not auto-rotated.