HP Designjet T7100 Printer series - Manual (Page 98)

● If you are working with mixed file formats, choose nesting Optimized. This option will nest
compatible pages in the queue, allowing for a gap of up to 3 incompatible pages before closing
the nest (See nesting compatibility below).
● For the jobs you want nested together, choose common values you will be using and create
presets. You can use the Embedded Web Server's Manage Presets tab to save your presets.
NOTE: If you have a multiroll printer with nesting enabled, your printer will do its best to save paper.
This means that the roll on which less paper is wasted will be chosen regardless of the roll switching
option you have selected (see Roll switching options on page 25 ).
NOTE: The printer will nest up to eight compatible jobs in a row.
TIP: Use the paper mismatch action Print anyway to minimize paper waste by skipping paper
source or paper type restrictions. For a more fine-grained nesting of jobs based on desired paper
source or type, use the Put job on hold paper mismatch action.
TIP: If you have a roll that is expensive or for special purposes only, use roll protection so that jobs
with unspecified paper type and source will not be able to use your special roll (see Roll protection
on page 91 ).
Nesting wait time
When a job is ready to print, if Nesting is enabled, the printer will wait for more jobs to arrive in
order to nest them together. You can change this waiting time from the front panel: select the Setup
menu icon
, then Job management options > Nest options > Select wait time.
You can also cancel nest waiting by pressing the Form feed and cut key on the front panel.
Nesting compatibility
Because nested pages must be printed all at the same time, they are required to share a common
printing format before they can be nested together. If you routinely work with one or two file formats,
and print most of your jobs with the same settings, you don't need to take any extra action to ensure
nesting compatibility. Otherwise, if you want to minimize paper waste using nesting:
● Save your settings in presets, using the Embedded Web Server's Manage presets tab. You can
save:
◦ Print-quality settings (Print quality, Max detail, More passes)
◦ Color and color adjustment settings (see Color adjustment options on page 97 )
◦ Layout and mechanical settings (Margins, Mirror, Cutter)
● All pages must be in one or other of the following three groups (a single nest must contain
members of only one group):
◦ TIFF and JPEG, which can nest together even with different input profiles
◦ PostScript and PDF
◦ HP-GL/2 using the same color space (sRGB/aRGB/dRGB)
NOTE: CALS/G4 pages do not nest.
NOTE: JPEG and TIFF pages with resolutions greater than 300 dpi may not nest with other pages in
some cases.
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