Printing device with delayed warm-up operation
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsBradley J. Anderson, Bruce L. Johnson, Leonard T. Schroath, William I. Herrmann, Elen S. Hunt
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Abstract
A method of powering up a printing device having a component that employs a warm-up operation, the method including, upon receiving power to the printing device, detecting delay indicia, and selectively delaying the warm-up operation based on the detected delay indicia.
Claims24
A method of powering up a printing device including a component that employs a warm-up operation, the method comprising;
- upon receiving power to the printing device, detecting delay indicia;
- and
- selectively delaying the warm-up operation based on the detected delay indicia.
A method of powering up a plurality of networked printing devices which employ respective warm-up operations during power-up, the method comprising:
- detecting delay indicia for one or more of the networked printing devices;
- and
- upon receiving power to the networked printing devices, staggering commencement of the warm-up operations of the of networked printing devices in accordance with the detected delay indicia.
A storage medium readable by a computing device, the storage medium tangibly embodying instructions executable by the computing device to perform a method of powering up a printing device that employs a warm-up operation, the method comprising;
- upon receiving power to the printing device, detecting delay indicia;
- and
- selectively delaying the warm-up operation based on the detected delay indicia.
A printing device, comprising:
- a formatter configured to format information contained within a print job into a printable form, the formatter including a processor and memory;
- and
- a print engine configured to print the information contained within the print job onto media, the print engine including a component that employs a warm-up operation when power is restored to the printing device after a power-down;
- wherein the memory of the formatter contains instructions executable by the processor upon power-up to inspect delay indicia before commencing the warm-up operation to determine delay, and to delay the warm-up operation if a delay is indicated by the delay indicia.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.