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US 2010/0149229 A1Published application
Controlling digital printing
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsMichael James Diehl, Andrew James Bonacci, Colleen R. Enzien, Thomas Edward Higgins, David Robert Kretschmann, Carlos A. Lopez, Ana Perez Tooker, Jacqueline Yvonne Tyson
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Abstract
A method and system for digital printing with plural marking engines in which a controller determines which of the marking engines has first completed its initialization/warm-up cycle and begins printing on that marking engine. As additional marking engines complete their initialization/warm-up cycle, additional concurrent printing is commenced on them.
Claims6
a method of controlling digital printing comprising:
- (a) providing a plurality of digital marking engines;
- (b) disposing a controller operatively connected to each of the marking engines;
- (c) initiating concurrently an initialization/warm-up cycle on each of the marking engines;
- (d) determining the completion of the initialization/warm-up cycle of each marking engine;
- and,
- (e) initiating a print job on the marking engine first to complete the initialization/warm-up cycle.
3 more elements
A digital printing system comprising:
- (a) a plurality of digital marking engines each having a print engine controller operative for upon initiation performing a initialization/warm-up cycle;
- and a digital front end (DFE) for job submittal.
- (b) a print engine controller connected to each of the marking engines and operative to schedule print media thereto for marking, wherein the controller schedules print media initially to the first of said marking engines at the end of the initialization/warm-up cycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.