Combining Multiple Hold Jobs

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

Tips

  • Only hold jobs can be combined.

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

  • Up to 499 jobs can be merged.

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

  1. Press JOB LIST on the screen.

    The JOB LIST screen is displayed.

  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.

    • supplementary explanationIf a desired job to combine is not found on the list, press downup to display the job.

    • supplementary explanationPressing 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.

    • supplementary explanationImage Only: Combines the images of the selected jobs only.

    • supplementary explanationImage + Paper: Takes over the images of the selected jobs and the paper profile to combine them.

    • supplementary explanationImage + Paper + Output: Takes over the images of the selected jobs, the paper profile, and the output mode to combine them.

    • supplementary explanationChapters: Specify whether to chapter the combined jobs.

    Setting

    Combination method

    Job Status
    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.

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

    • supplementary explanationIf 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.

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