To impose Print Items that should remain together in the Nesting, the option Grouping and Sorting is available in the Workflow. This function is implemented in addition to the existing option of pure sorting.

To perform user-defined Grouping and Sorting for Nesting, proceed as follows:

1. Open the Imposition and switch to the Nesting Impose Mode.
2. Create a multi-page Imposition with different Print Items from e.g. different Orders and Order Items.
3. Switch to the Artboard Settings area tab and select the Settings area.
4. In Sequence of Placement select the Grouping / Sorting option.
5. In the Group and Sort dialog, select the first criterion [1] - e.g. Acquisition Date - for the group.

Figure 1: The Group and Sort dialog at the beginning

5. After selecting the sorting criteria, you can expand the area and choose from the following Wrapping Methods:
   • Line Break [2] - The first Print Item of the next group is placed in the next row, at the selected starting point of the Imposition.
   • Page Break [3] - The first Print Item of the next group is placed on the next Sheet, at the selected starting point as well as at the selected stop edge of the Imposition.
   • Continuous [4] - The first Print Item of the next group is placed immediately afterward to create as little Substrate waste as possible.
6. Optionally, select another sorting criterion [5] to determine how the placed Print Items are to be sorted and arranged within a group.
7. Then determine for each sorting criterion whether sorting should be in ascending or descending order [6].

Figure 2: The dialog Group and Sort with selected Group and selected Sorting Criteria

The following figures - Figure 3 to Figure 6 - show how the Wrapping Methods affect Nesting and, above all, the efficiency of the Imposition. Grouping of Print Items is usually always accompanied by lower efficiency in Nesting, but you gain corresponding efficiency in finishing and packaging of printed Print Items.