Printer for printing with a print media-determined print job end and a method therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJohan G. VONS
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJohan G. VONS
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A printer including an entry station for receiving media, an end station for storing the printed media, the entry station including a sensor indicating when no more media is available in the entry station, and a print controller for receiving print jobs and controlling a printing process using a print queue. The control system receives a print job in the print queue including print job data, a first setting indicating that printing of the print job needs to automatically stop once the sensor detects an end of the media, and a second setting indicating what action is required for the print job once printing has automatically stopped by the sensor detecting the end of the media. The second setting indicates marking the print job completed or keeping the print job in the print queue to allow resuming printing the print job once media is available again in the entry station.
A printer comprising:
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