Job change scrap reduction

A system for reducing waste in a digital printer comprising:

• a web transport system for moving a print media through the printer at a first speed and which slows to a second speed prior to the end of a first job based on the estimated time for a first section of the print media containing the end of the first job to arrive at the finishing device;
• at least one printhead for printing the first job on the print media;
• at least one finishing device in a first configuration which acts on the print media downstream of the printhead and which changes to a second configuration after the first job has passed the finishing device;
• a main controller for estimating a time for a first section of the print media containing an end point of the first job to arrive at the finishing device and which estimates a time to complete changing the finishing device from the first configuration to the second configuration and which estimates a time for a second section of the print media containing a starting point of the first job to arrive at the finishing device;
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• wherein the printhead prints a second job on a second section of the print media prior to completion of the change from the first to second configuration based on the estimated time to completion and time for the second section to arrive at the finishing device.