HP Designjet Z6800 and Z6600 Printer Series - Nest jobs to save paper

Nesting means automatically printing images or document pages side by side on the paper, rather than one after the other. This is done to avoid wasting paper.

1. Direction of paper flow
2. Nesting off
3. Nesting on
4. Paper saved by nesting

When Nest is On in the front panel's Job Management menu and the Embedded Web Server's Job Management page.

All pages can be nested, unless they are so large that two of them cannot fit side by side on the roll, or unless there are too many of them to fit into the remaining length of the roll. A single group of nested pages cannot be split between two rolls.

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 (Economode, Fast, Normal or Best).
• The Max. resolution and Unidirectional setting must be the same on all pages.
• The Margins setting must be the same for all pages.
• The Mirror Image setting 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. See Color-adjustment optionsColor-adjustment options.
• 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):
  • CALS/G4
  • PostScript, PDF, TIFF, JPEG
• JPEG, TIFF and CALS/G4 pages with resolutions greater than 300 dpi may not nest with other pages in some cases.

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 two minutes. This means that the printer waits for up to two minutes after the last file is received before printing the final nest. You can change this waiting time from the printer's front panel: select the Setup menu icon , then Job management options > Nest options > Select 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. You can print the nest (cancel the nest wait) by pressing the Form feed and cut key.