Nest jobs to save roll paper, To print crop lines with nested jobs (see – HP Designjet T3500 Production eMFP User Manual

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In the Windows driver dialog: select the Layout/Output tab and then Remove blank areas and/or
Rotate by 90 degrees or Autorotate.

In the Mac OS X Print dialog (non-PostScript printers): select the Finishing panel, then Remove
Blank Areas
.

In the Mac OS X PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Finishing panel, then
Remove Blank Areas and/or Rotate by 90 degrees.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Roll options >
Remove top/bottom blank areas and/or Rotate.

If you check the print preview on your computer before printing, you can sometimes avoid wasting
paper on prints containing obvious mistakes. See

Preview a print on page 81

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Nest jobs to save roll paper

Nesting means automatically printing images or document pages side by side on the paper, rather than one
after the other. This is done to avoid wasting paper.

1.

Direction of paper flow

2.

Nesting off

3.

Nesting on

4.

Paper saved by nesting

When does the printer try to nest pages?

When both of the following are true:

The printer is loaded with roll paper, not sheet paper.

The printer's Nest option is turned on. See

Turn nesting on and off on page 28

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What pages can be nested?

All pages can be nested, unless they are so large that two of them cannot fit side by side on the roll, or unless
there are too many of them to fit into the remaining length of the roll. A single group of nested pages cannot
be split between two rolls.

Which pages qualify for nesting?

In order to be in the same nest, the individual pages must be compatible in all of the following ways:

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