HP Designjet 2500.3500cp Printer series - Manual (Page 178)

Managing Your Prints
Avoiding Media Waste by Nesting Pages
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Turning Nesting On or Off and Choosing the Nesting
Method
NOTE:The Optimal setting does not affect PostScript files. If Optimal is selected
when printing a PostScript file, Nesting will function as if In order is selected.
What Happens to Nesting if You Turn Queueing Off?
Turning queueing off does not turn nesting off for pages already in the queue. The
printer prints all the pages in the queue before accepting any more files. As soon as
you turn queueing off, the nesting setting also changes to off. When queueing is
turned on again, the printer restores nesting to its previous setting.
Nest Setting
Selected Printer’s Response
Off The printer will not nest pages.
Optimal Choose this if you want to use the least amount of media.
The printer will search all through the queue for suitable pages.
It will nest the pages according to an algorithm that, for most
combinations of page sizes, saves the most media. The resulting
nesting pattern may still vary, depending on the size of the first
page.
In order Choose this if the speed with which you receive your prints is
most important. The printer will try to nest pages in their queue
sequence. If it comes across an incompatible page, it will stop
searching and print any nest it has already created.
QUEUEING & NESTING
Nest
All menu modes
Default: Off