System and methods for reducing component wear in an imaging device

A method of reducing wear on one or more imaging components in an imaging device, comprising:

• receiving a print job;
• determining whether a default printing performance of the imaging device needs to be adjusted based on a previous print job following receipt of the print job;
• upon a positive determination, disabling at least one of a set of functions performed in the imaging device for achieving the default printing performance;
• and
• sending a rasterized image corresponding to each page of the print job to a print engine of the imaging device for printing,
• wherein the disabling the at least one of the set of functions reduces the default printing performance of the imaging device and reducing the default printing performance results in a reduction of the wear on the one or more imaging components in the imaging device thus increasing an allowable life of the one or more imaging components and wherein the determining includes detecting a network connectivity problem while receiving the print job and disabling the at least one of the set of functions performed in the imaging device in response to detecting the network connectivity problem to reduce the default printing performance.

An imaging device including a method for reducing component wear in the imaging device, comprising:

• a controller having an associated memory, the memory including instructions for executing a set of functions for achieving a default printing performance of the imaging device;
• a raster image processor for generating a rasterized image for each page of a print job;
• and
• a print engine for outputting the rasterized image onto a media sheet passed through the imaging device,
• wherein the raster image processor includes instructions to:
• determine prior processing the print job whether at least one of the set of functions are disabled;
• reduce the default printing performance upon a determination that the at least one of the set of functions are disabled;
• and
• send each rasterized image to the print engine for printing using the reduced default printing performance following performing the instructions to reduce the default printing performance,
• wherein performing the instructions to reduce the default printing performance result in the component wear in the imaging device to be reduced and
• wherein the raster image processor further includes instructions to determine whether slow image generation exists during one of prior and during the sending of each rasterized image to the print engine and to disable the at least one of the set of functions upon a positive determination for reference by the raster image processor when another print job is received in the imaging device.