Reducing imaging device churn by managing unproductive photoconductive drum revolutions
AssigneeLexmark International, Inc.
InventorsDouglas Anthony Able, Kevin Dean Schoedinger
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Abstract
An imaging system having methods for reducing churn in an imaging device which includes identifying a number of unproductive revolutions made in a print engine of the imaging device, determining whether the number of unproductive revolutions exceeds a predetermined threshold, and performing at least one of: using a predetermined speed limit when printing a page and disabling a function in the imaging device upon the determination that the number of unproductive revolutions exceeds the predetermined threshold.
Claims20
A method of reducing churn in an imaging device, comprising:
- determining whether a print setting of a page differs from a print setting of a previously printed page;
- and
- upon a positive determination:
- identifying a number of unproductive revolutions made by a print engine of the imaging device while transitioning the imaging device to a print-ready mode;
- determining whether the number of unproductive revolutions exceeds a predetermined threshold;
- and
- using a predetermined speed limit when printing the page upon the determination that the number of unproductive revolutions exceeds the predetermined threshold.
A method of reducing churn in an imaging device, comprising:
- determining whether a function in the imaging device is enabled;
- upon a positive determination:
- identifying a number of unproductive revolutions made by a print engine of the imaging device while transitioning the imaging device to a print-ready mode;
- determining whether the number of unproductive revolutions has reached a predetermined threshold;
- and
- disabling the function in the imaging device upon the determination that the number of unproductive revolutions has reached the predetermined threshold.
An imaging device, comprising:
- a controller having an associated memory for storing a plurality of instructions;
- and
- a print engine communicatively connected to the controller,
- wherein the plurality of instructions in the controller includes instructions to:
- track a number of unproductive revolutions by the print engine while transitioning the imaging device to a print-ready mode;
- determine whether the number of unproductive revolutions in the print engine has reached a predetermined threshold;
- and
- adjust one or more settings in the imaging device prior to picking a media sheet upon the determination that the number of unproductive revolutions has reached the predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.