HP DesignJet T3500 Users Guide - Page 91

● The color adjustment settings must be the same for all pages. See Color adjustment options on page 103. ● Pages must be all color, or all grayscale: not some in color and some in grayscale. ● All pages must be in one or other of the following two groups (the two groups cannot be mixed in the same nest): ◦ HP-GL/2, RTL, TIFF, JPEG ◦ PostScript, PDF ● JPEG and TIFF pages with resolutions greater than 300 dpi may not nest with other pages in some cases. 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 been received to check whether a subsequent page will nest with it or with pages already in the queue. This waiting period is the nest wait time; the factory default nest wait time is 2 minutes. This means that the printer waits for up to 2 minutes after the last file is received before printing the final nest. You can change this waiting time from the printer's front panel: press , then Job management options > Nest options > Wait time. The available range is 1 to 99 minutes. While the printer is waiting for nesting to time out, it displays the remaining time on the front panel. Use ink economically Here are some recommendations for making economical use of ink. ● For draft prints, use plain paper and move the print-quality slider to the left end of the scale ('Speed'). For further economy, select custom print quality options, then select Fast and Economode. ● Clean the printhead only when needed. Cleaning the printhead can be useful, but it uses a small amount of ink. ● Leave the printer permanently turned on so that it can maintain the printhead in good condition automatically. This regular printhead maintenance uses a small amount of ink. However, if it is not done, the printer may need to use much more ink later to restore the health of the printhead. ● Wide prints make more efficient use of ink than narrow prints, because printhead maintenance uses some ink, and its frequency is related to the number of passes made by the printhead. Therefore, nesting jobs can save ink as well as saving paper (see Nest jobs to save roll paper on page 80). Roll protection If you choose to protect a roll, jobs will be printed on it only if the job explicitly specifies the roll number or the paper type loaded on the roll. This may be useful, for example, in the following cases. ● To stop people from accidentally printing unimportant jobs on expensive paper. ● To avoid printing on a particular roll when printing from AutoCAD without interacting with the HP printer driver. To protect a roll, go to the front panel and press > Roll protection. , then Default Printing configuration > Paper options NOTE: If you protect a roll, then later unload the current roll and load a new one, the new roll remains protected. You are protecting the roll number, not one specific roll of paper. That roll number will remain protected until you cancel the protection. ENWW Advanced print settings 81