Help! I’m stuck at work trying to get some stuff plotted. The PM wanted in “nested”. To her that means having two sheets plotted side by side on the same length of paper. Is this what nesting means in relationship to printers? In finding lots of stuff that has to do with queing and nesting but not a good definition of what nesting really means. I get the impression that it’s some sort of data management system. If what she’s asking for isn’t called nesting, do you have any idea what you would call it so I can search the HP help forum for it? (argh, it’s 10:30 pm here and I don’t think I’m ever leaving…)
Nesting has something to do with sharing a printer over a network…but I don’t know what exactly.
OK, (this isn’t interesting to anyone but I’m typing it anyway) I found an old HP 1055 manual on line and “nesting” only refers to those big plotter printers and is a way to make optimal use of the large plotter paper size. So the printer will look at pages and arrange them so it uses less paper. Which is exactly what I want. But I send the files to the ploter this weird back-asswards way using DOS and not via a windows application so I’m still stuck. ARGH. OK, I’m gonna stop boring Dopers with my problems. **Dog80[/b[, thank you for replying. 