HP 700, 750C PLUS PLOTTER manual What is the Queue?

Managing Your Plots

Managing Plots Not Yet Printed (The Queue)

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750C Plus

What is the Queue?

Your plotter can store plots in a queue at the same time as plotting the current file. It stores them by page, though if you send only single-page files, you can regard these as plots. The size of the queue is limited by the number of pages (maximum 32) and the total memory occupied by the queue;

maximum standard memory 7 MB through 71 MB

maximum standard memory 11 MB through 75 MB

Queueing & Nesting

Queue

Full menu mode Default: On

depending on which memory expansion modules you have installed. Remember that file size and memory usage are not the same thing, as explained on page 7-10. However, it is clear that the larger your files are, the fewer you can store in the queue.

With queueing turned ON

You can send one or more plots to the plotter without waiting for the current page to finish.

You can manipulate the pages in the queue, for example prioritizing them and replotting them.

You can use nesting, the plotter's media-saving feature (see page 6-10).

With queueing turned OFF

The plotter will not accept a file sent from the computer until the current page has finished plotting and the plotter is ready.

You cannot use nesting (see page 6-10).

If you turn queueing off while pages are still in the queue, they will be plotted and

± if nesting is on ± nested, until the queue is empty.

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