HP DesignJet 500 - Page 27

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Managing Pages that have Not Yet been Printed 27
Managing Pages that have Not Yet been Printed
Queueing and nesting are only available on the
HP Designjet 800 Series. (You can obtain
reprints on the 500 plus, or on the 500 Series if
an accessory card is installed; see page 23).
Change the Queueing setting by selecting
Queue On or Off from the Job Management
( ) menu.
To change the Nesting setting, see page 32,
Turning Nesting On and Off.
If the printer is turned off with unprinted files in
the queue, the files are lost and must be resent.
With Queueing Turned ON
When Queueing is On and the printer receives
print files, the files are stored in the queue in the
order they are received. If Nesting is Off, the files
are printed as soon as possible, in the order they
are received. If Nesting is On, files are printed
when the time-out period expires or there are
enough files to fill a page width. You can reprint
files which have already been printed. See also
page 31, Avoiding Paper Waste by Nesting
Pages.
• You can send pages to the printer without
waiting for the current page to finish printing.
• Pages are stored in the queue in the order
they are received.
• You can manipulate the pages in the queue,
for example prioritizing them and reprinting
them.
• You can use nesting, the printer’s paper-