Home Job OperationsCombining Multiple Hold Jobs

Combining Multiple Hold Jobs

You can combine multiple hold jobs into a hold job, which can be saved.

  • Only hold jobs can be combined.

  • If you make changes to settings of a hold job to combine, these changes do not apply to the combined hold job.

  • Up to 499 jobs can be combined.

  • Up to 10,000 pages can be saved to a job.

  1. Press the [JOB LIST] tab to display the [JOB LIST] screen.

  2. Press [Hold Job].

    The [Hold Job] screen will be displayed.

  3. Press [Multi-Sel.] and then select jobs to combine.

    Press the rows of the desired jobs to combine on the list.

    • If a desired job to combine is not found on the list, press [][] to display the job.

    • Pressing each title in the title row will sort the list in selected order.

  4. Press [Up] or [Down] to change the combination order.

  5. Press [Combine].

  6. Select a combination method.

    • Selecting [Image Only] will combine the images of the selected jobs only.

    • Selecting [Image+Paper] combines the images of the selected jobs and the paper profile are carried over.

    • Selecting [Image+Paper+Output] combines the images of the selected jobs, the paper profile, and the output mode are carried over.

    • Selecting [ON] in [Chapters] divides the combined job into chapters.

    Setting

    Combination method

    Output setting or application of the first job

    Operation

    Output Setting

    Image Only
    Image + Paper

    Punch

    The setting of the first job is applied to all the combined jobs.

    Multi-Fold (Fold & Staple, Multi Half Fold, Multi Tri-Fold)

    Z-Fold

    The setting of the last page in the first job is applied to all of the second and subsequent jobs that are combined.

    Staple

    Image + Paper + Output

    Punch

    The setting of the first job is applied to all the combined jobs.

    Multi-Fold (Fold & Staple, Multi Half Fold, Multi Tri-Fold)

    The settings of all jobs are canceled.

    Z-Fold

    The setting of each job is held.

    Staple

    Application Setting

    Image Only
    Image + Paper
    Image + Paper + Output

    Combine / Image Repeat / Booklet / Adhesive Binding / Image Centering / Page Margin / Stamp

    The setting of the first job is applied to all the combined jobs.

    Others

    The settings of all jobs are canceled.

    • If the first job has no output setting or application setting, the settings of all jobs are canceled.

    • If output settings are mixed, data is output with Z-Fold, No Output, No Output, No Output, and Staple + Z-Fold after combination has been completed in example cases to combine jobs specified in the order of Z-Fold, Punch, Multi-Fold, No Output, and Staple + Punch + Z-Fold.

  7. Press [OK].

    The selected jobs are combined into a new hold job.

    • The file name of the new job is the same as that of the first file in the combination order.