Minimize paper waste. If this option is chosen, the printer will choose the narrowest roll that meets all the criteria, to avoid wasting paper due to trimming. This is the default option.

Minimize roll changes. If this option is chosen, the printer will choose the roll that is currently active, to avoid wasting time with a roll switch.

Use roll with less paper. If this option is chosen, the printer will choose the roll that has the least paper.

NOTE: This option is effective only if you have enabled Printing paper info (see Printing paper info on page 63). Otherwise, it has the same effect as Minimize paper waste.

Turn nesting on and off

Nesting means automatically printing images or document pages side by side on the paper when feasible, rather than one after the other. This is done to avoid wasting paper. See Nest jobs to save roll paper

on page 79.

To turn nesting on or off, you must first make sure that the job queue is enabled (see Turn off the job queue on page 105 or Turn off the job queue on page 109) and the start of printing is set to After Processing (see Select when to print a job in the queue on page 104 or Select when to print a job in the queue on page 107). Then:

In the HP Designjet Utility for Windows: from the Admin tab, select Printer settings > Job Management > Nest.

In the HP Utility for Mac OS X: select Configuration > Printer Settings > Configure Printer Settings > Job Management > Nest.

In the Embedded Web Server: select Setup > Printer settings > Job management > Nest.

Using the front panel: press , then , then Setup > Job management > Nest options > Nesting.

In each case, you will see the following options:

In order: pages are nested in the order in which they are sent to the printer. The nested pages are printed as soon as one of three conditions is met:

The next page will not fit on the same row as the other pages already nested.

No page has been sent to the printer during the specified wait time.

The next page is incompatible with the pages already nested (see Nest jobs to save roll paper on page 79).

Optimized order: pages are not necessarily nested in the order in which they are sent to the printer. When it receives an incompatible page, the printer holds it and waits for compatible pages to complete the nest. The nested pages are printed as soon as one of three conditions is met:

The next page will not fit on the same row as the other pages already nested.

No page has been sent to the printer during the specified wait time.

The incompatible-page queue is full. The printer can queue up to six incompatible pages while nesting compatible pages. If it receives a seventh incompatible page, the nest is printed as it is.

Off: nesting is disabled. This is the default option.

The nesting wait time can be set at the front panel: press , then , then Setup > Job management

>Nest options > Wait time.

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