How much of the roll a job uses

A sticker sheet is printed off a roll, and the roll is what you pay for. Studio shows how much of it a job uses, so you can see a half-empty sheet before it is on the press.

Where to read it

On the bar above the sheet there is a % used figure. The preflight, on its tab, and the Job tab say the same figure in words. It is one number, worked out once.

The figure counts the roll the job takes, edge to edge: the whole width of the roll, for the length the job needs. A sheet narrower than the roll leaves the rest of the width unused, however full the sheet itself is. The roll's edges are its boundary, so a sheet can be laid out to the full width of the roll, less only what the press cannot print at its edges.

What the preflight says

When much of the roll is wasted, the preflight shows a note that is not a stop, for example Only 40% of the roll it takes is used. It says what to try:

• on a sheet as wide as the roll: a shorter sheet, a narrower gap or more copies would use the material you are paying for;
• on a sheet narrower than the roll: widen the sheet to the roll's width, or gang it on a roll with another job.

Fill the sheet — N on the Job tab raises the copies to what the sheet holds. It clears the note only where the sheet is already as wide as the roll, because on a narrower sheet most of the roll is still not used.

Stops about the roll

• A sheet wider than the roll is a stop. The roll width is a hard limit across.
• A sheet over the material's own maximum is a stop.
• A piece too big to fit the sheet at all is a stop.

Ganging on one roll

Two jobs on the same stock can share a roll. When you put each on a press, they wait together, and Studio tells you when the roll is full enough to print. See Put jobs on one roll.