HP Z6100 HP Designjet Z6100 Printer Series - User's Guide - Page 112

Print options Pages are nested on the roll independent of when they are submitted to the printer. An incompatible page does not break a nest. Instead, the printer waits for more compatible pages and queues the incompatible pages until one of three conditions is met: ● The nest is full, meaning that the remaining length of paper on the roll is too small to accommodate the next page submitted ● The nesting timeout elapses ● The incompatible-page queue is full. The printer queues up to six incompatible pages while it nests compatible pages. Upon receiving the seventh incompatible page, the nest is broken and printed. Then the pages in the incompatible-page queue print. For more information about the compatibility of a job, see How job compatibility is defined on page 100. The advantage of Optimized order nesting is that it typically wastes less paper because the nest is not broken when an incompatible page is submitted. The disadvantage is the overall printing time is typically longer because the printer waits for compatible pages. NOTE: Pages might not be printed in the order that the were submitted to the printer when the Optimized order option is selected. How job compatibility is defined In order to be in the same nest, the individual pages must be compatible in all of the following ways: ● All pages must have the same print-quality setting. ● The Maximum Detail setting must be the same on all pages. ● The Mirror setting must be the same for all pages. ● The Rendering Intent must be the same for all pages. ● The Cutter setting must be the same for all pages. ● The color adjustment settings must be the same for all pages. These are known as Advanced Color Settings in the Windows driver, and CMYK Settings in the Mac OS driver. ● Pages must be all color or all grayscale. The pages cannot be a mix of color and grayscale. ● All pages must be in one of the following two groups; the two groups cannot be mixed in the same nest: ● HP-GL/2, RTL, and CALS G4 ● PostScript, PDF, TIFF, and JPEG ● JPEG, TIFF, and CALS G4 pages that have a resolution greater than 300 dpi might not nest with other pages. Nest with crop lines Crop lines are lines that are printed onto the paper during a print job to indicate where the paper should be cut to create a specific paper size. Crop lines can be printed for individual jobs or for multiple jobs printed with the nesting feature. NOTE: Selecting the crop lines option in the Nest options menu overrides the setting in the Printing options menu for an individual job. 100 Chapter 6 Print options