Recovery from occurrence of a fault condition in digital printing
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsAmy Moormann Zaremski, Dragana Pavlovic, Bradford Freeman
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Abstract
A method of digital printing in which each of the page images of a print job with a large number of sequential pages to be printed is classified as to the job or document type. Upon occurrence of a fault in printing, upon fault clearance and resumption of printing, only those pages having the same classification as the pages involved in the fault are reprinted in sequence from the fault.
Claims6
A method of recovery from occurrence of a fault condition in a digital printing job comprising:
- (a) assigning a job classification to each page image to be printed in a sequence of pages;
- and,
- (b) in the event of a fault condition in the sheet printing, clearing the fault condition and with respect to any sheets later in the sequence, reprinting only any of said sheets having the same classification as sheets involved in the fault condition, and not reprinting any of said sheets having a different classification.
A method of scheduling sheet delivery of sequential sheets to plural destinations in a digital image printing job comprising:
- (a) assigning a job classification to each digital page image to be printed;
- (b) scheduling printing of the print job in the order of the sequence of the page images;
- (c) assigning print sheet destinations and delivering printed sheets in sequence to the assigned destinations;
- (d) in the event of a fault condition, storing the identity and classification of any sheets later in the sequence from the sheet involved in the fault;
- and,
- (e) clearing the fault condition and reprinting only those of said stored sheets having a different classification than the sheets involved in the fault condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.