Contents
6 Managing Your Plots
Managing Plots Currently Being Printed or Drying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2To Cancel a Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2To Cut a Plot Before Drying Is Complete (Roll Media Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2To Pause while Printing a Series of Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3Managing Plots Not Yet Printed (The Queue) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4To Start Printing a Plot That Is Waiting for a Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4What Is the Queue? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5To Identify a Page in the Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6To See the Size of a Page in the Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7To Prioritize a Page in the Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7To Delete a Page from the Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7To Make Copies of a Page in the Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8To Replot an Image Using the Plotter's Memory (DesignJet 700) . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9Avoiding Media Waste by Nesting Pages (Roll Media Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10What Is Nesting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10When Does the Plotter Try to Nest Pages? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11Which Pages Qualify for Nesting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11Which Pages May be Rotated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11To Turn Nesting On or Off and Choose the Nesting Method . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12What Happens to Nesting if You Turn Queueing Off? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12How Long Does the Plotter Wait for Another File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12Getting the Best From Nesting (Nesting and Margins) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13Nesting and the Rotate Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13