Nesting prints with Flexi Production Manager

Hold the Ctrl button and select the files you want to nest. Once you select the files you want, right click and a menu will pop up and nest will be an option. It will automatically nest them.

 

There is a check box on the bottom left corner of the layout window that is labeled, "Manual nesting". Make sure that is checked and you should be able to move them freely. It doesn't let you overlap though.

 

Also, I know you are using Corel for the most part, but if you use Flexi designer at all you can use the true shape nesting feature. It automatically nests contour cut images to minimize white space. Here is a video about it.

 

So we haven't experimented with this yet, but you could try the Auto Nest in the Setup Properties. It should only nest jobs that have the same presets, but no promises. Not sure how big your setup is, but you could "Duplicate Setup" and have them designated for banner, sav, etc. Each duplicate can have it's own hot folder. Then auto nest would for sure nest similar jobs.

 

I'm not seeing these options for nesting when selecting a group of files. Is this when they are being imported or after they are ripped in the job manager?

 

The option for manual nesting is in the layout screen that pops up when you click on job properties. I'm using the latest cloud version but yours might be different.

 

Yeah I wish they would add the feature to the RIP layout screen instead of having to do it in designer. If those red squares are able to be sent as single jobs and then nested it should work the way you want it. If they can't be sent separately, you're out of luck.