Methods for print inspection recovery operations at a printing device
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsJavier A. Morales, Yoshihiro Osada
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Abstract
A printing device includes an inspection system that uses variable intervals to inspect printed sheets for a print job. The variable interval sets the inspection points for the inspection process. Once a defect is detected on a printed sheet, the sheets in the paper path are cleared and separated into good and defective sets of sheets. The cleared sheets are sent to an output bin for further review. After addressing the defect, the last good sheet printed is determined and adjusted to resume printing operations.
Claims16
A method for print inspection recovery operations, the method comprising:
- detecting a defect on a scanned sheet of a print job being printed within a printing device, wherein the scanned sheet is inspected within a variable interval;
- determining a number of sheets within a paper path of the printing device based on the scanned sheet;
- removing the number of sheets from the paper path;
- determining a set of defective sheets within the number of sheets;
- determining an amount of a consumable to correct the defect within the printing device;
- generating job cost information for the set of defective sheets.
A method for print inspection recovery operations, the method comprising:
- detecting a defect on a scanned sheet of a print job being printed within a printing device, wherein the scanned sheet is inspected within a variable interval;
- determining a number of sheets within a paper path of the printing device based on the scanned sheet;
- identifying the number of sheets from the paper path;
- determining a set of defective sheets within the number of sheets;
- determining a set of good sheets within the number of sheets;
- sending the set of defective sheets to a first output bin of the printing device;
- lowering the first output bin with the set of defective sheets;
- and
- sending the set of good sheets to a second output bin of the printing device.
A method for recovering from an equipment malfunction defect at a printing device, the method comprising:
- detecting a defect on a scanned sheet of a print job being printed within a printing device, wherein the scanned sheet is inspected within a variable interval;
- determining a number of sheets within a paper path of the printing device based on the scanned sheet;
- removing the number of sheets from the paper path;
- determining a set of defective sheets within the number of sheets;
- adjusting a first sheet of the set of defective sheets using a user interface at the printing device, wherein adjusting the first sheet includes scrolling through the number of sheets for the variable interval;
- and
- resuming printing of the print job at the first sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.