Printers save money by "ganging" many jobs onto one big press sheet. Every gap you leave is board that gets trimmed off and thrown away. Pack the jobs tight.
How to play
Fill the sheet
Print jobs drop onto the press sheet at their real size, bleed and gutter included.
Move, rotate and drop them to pack the sheet tight. Nothing prints on the grey gripper edge.
When a strip between two cut lines is 80% full or more, the guillotine cuts it off and everything above drops down. A full band scores a bonus.
Red dashed lines are clean cut lines: each shows how full the strip below it is.
The press speeds up every 3 cuts. The run ends when the next job can't get onto the sheet.
Job sizes are real finished sizes plus 3 mm bleed and a gutter, rounded up to a 20 mm grid so the game stays playable. On a real job, our prepress team also plans grain direction, colour bars and cutting order.