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Create a step and repeat

You can create multiple copies (clones) of a job and use the flip, offset, and rotate settings to create interesting patterns. You can also design seamless rapports that have an offset/drop, such as is required in the textile and wallpaper industries.

Before you begin: Make all job settings and color adjustments before you create a step and repeat. You cannot modify the original job after you have created a step and repeat without deleting all the copies first.
  1. Do one of the following:
    • In Server Manager: On the sidebar, click Printers, and select a printer. In the printer's tree view, select a workflow. On the Layout tab, expand the Step and Repeat panel. In the panel header bar, select the check box to activate the settings.

    • In Job Editor: On the Layout tab, expand the Step and Repeat panel. In the panel header bar, select the check box to activate the settings.

  2. Do one of the following:
    • Select Copies, and type the required number of copies. The original job is included in the total number.

      Select Fill last row (optional) to ensure that the last row is completed. This may mean that more than the defined number of copies is printed.

    • Select Fill media to create as many copies as will fit on the media.

    • Select Pattern to print seamless repeats of a design. Your pattern can consist of a required number of horizontal and vertical copies, or you can fill the whole media, or a user-defined area of the media.

      Select Offset/Drop (optional) to define the amount of horizontal or vertical shift. You can type any percentage, or select the amount of drop as a fraction of the image width or height—1/1 equals no shift, 1/2 equals a 50% shift, and 1/4 equals a 25% shift. You can also define a custom shift in either direction.

  3. Under Space around jobs (picture mount), type a border width to simulate a picture mount (optional) (Server Manager only).

    This setting takes into account the printer's non-printable margins.

  4. Under Flip/Rotate, flip or rotate by 180° alternate rows or columns (optional).
  5. Under Space between jobs, type a horizontal and vertical distance between copies (optional).
  6. Do one of the following:
    • In Server Manager: Click Save.
    • In Job Editor: Click Apply.
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