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Tell me about the settings for jobs--layout

 

Layout

Using the layout settings, you control how the print jobs are placed on the paper. You can thus save material when outputting "small" jobs. In addition, you can define various procedures for handling so-called oversize formats, i.e. the behavior of jobs if the job is larger than the printable area of the selected paper. In contrast to the other options, the Layout option does not primarily control handling of oversize formats but is meant to facilitate printing of jobs being significantly smaller than the paper on which they are to be printed, e.g. business cards.

Tell me about the settings for jobs--oversize formats

You can define the following parameters for positioning a job on the printable area:

  • Multiple pages
  • Multiple output on one page is effected for the document. You can set the number of pages to be printed in the vertical and horizontal direction. A maximum of four pages is possible (e.g. at 4x4, 16 pages of the job are printed on the sheet). An appropriate coordination of paper size and document size including potential cutting marks is required.

    In this way, it is possible to place successive pages on the same sheet or to print a single page several times on a sheet.

  • Orientation
  • Defines the document orientation on the page. With the Automatic option enabled, the system chooses the best possible orientation. If, for example, the original document is 12 cm wide, it can be printed in 1x3 on DIN A3 paper, provided it has been rotated by 90°.

Note: The settings for Multiple pages and Orientation are shown in the preview window.

Explanations on the positioning of jobs

The setting selected for Multiple pages is the maximum possible layout, i.e. if only a small part of the job can be positioned on the selected paper, the job will not be canceled; instead, the best possible usage is determined. Thus, this option mainly serves to optimize material usage.

The Multiple pages setting can be combined with the Clip and Scale settings but not with the Tiling setting.

Combining these settings does not cause jobs to be adapted until the selected number of jobs fits on the paper; instead, the combination selected is only applied in those cases where a job does not completely fit into the printable area.

Example:

Selecting Multiple pages = 4x4 and Layout adjustment = Clip has the following result when the A4 paper size is used:

 

Job (size)

Result

Passport photo (4 x 5 cm)

16 per sheet (= 4x4, total = 16 x 20 cm)

Calling card (8.5 x 5.5 cm)

8 per sheet (= 2x4, 17 x 22 cm)*

Postcard (11 x 16 cm)

2 per sheet (= 1x2, 16 x 22 cm)

A3 poster

1 per sheet, centered and trimmed to the printable area at the sides

* The paper usage can be enhanced to 3x3 by rotating these items by 90°.

These combinations are possible because the settings of the virtual printers are applied as defaults for the incoming print jobs, allowing each job size to be optimally processed. If a job must explicitly be output in a different manner, e.g. by printing only the facing pages of a brochure on one sheet although three pages would fit on the paper, the appropriate settings must be specifically made for this job, e.g. in Jobstream (in our example here: 1x2).


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