System and Methods for Reducing Component Wear in an Imaging Device
AssigneeLexmark International, Inc.
InventorWilliam Paul Cook
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Abstract
An imaging system including a method for reducing component wear in an imaging device which includes receiving a print job in the imaging device, generating an image for each page of the print job, printing each image, determining whether an image generation during at least one of the receiving, the generating, and the printing is slow, and upon a positive determination, disabling one or more functions in the imaging device to adjust a default printing performance of the imaging device, wherein the one or more functions include an advanced start function and a smart-run out function stored in a memory of the imaging device for achieving the default printing performance.
Claims6
A method for reducing component wear in an imaging device, the imaging device having a controller in communication with memory having stored instructions to cause the controller to send a start command to a print engine upon receipt of a print job by a raster image processor and for the controller to prevent the print engine from shutting down while the raster image processor processes the print job, comprising:
- receiving the print job at the imaging device;
- generating an image for each page of the print job;
- printing each image;
- determining whether an image generation during at least one of the receiving, the generating, and the printing is slow;
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- upon a positive determination, disabling one or both of the stored instructions to adjust a default printing performance of the imaging device.
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