Print speed determination based on a power budget
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDuane A. KOEHLER, Mark H. MacKENZIE, Douglas HARRIMAN, Matthew A. SHEPHERD
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Abstract
A printing system including a print mechanism to print on a print medium; and a control unit coupled to the print mechanism. The control unit is to determine a page speed for the print medium based on a power budget value of a power supply and to cause the print mechanism to move the print medium through the printing system at the determined page speed.
Claims19
A printing system, comprising:
- a print mechanism to print on a print medium;
- and
- a control unit coupled to the print mechanism, the control unit to:
- determine, for each of a plurality of power supply power budgets, each power budget having a different size energy window, an enemy value for the energy window of that particular power supply power budget;
- convert each energy value to a calculated power value;
- determine a print speed for the print medium based on a comparison of the calculated power value for each power bud et to a corresponding power supply power budget value;
- and
- cause the print mechanism to move the print medium through the printing system at the determined print speed.
A method, comprising:
- determining compliance of a print job with a power budget associated with a power supply by determining an energy value required for printing each of a plurality of energy windows and converting each energy value to a power value;
- and
- setting a print speed based on whether the print job is in compliance with the power budget.
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A non-transitory, computer-readable storage device comprising software that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:
- determine compliance of a print job with a power budget associated with a power supply by determining an energy value required for printing each of a plurality of energy windows and converting each energy value to a power value;
- and
- set a print speed based on whether the print job is in compliance with the power budget.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.