Lexmark International, Inc.

Christy Mitchell West

Allen P Johnson

David William Murphy

Timothy Gerard Yorkey

A printer has monochrome and color printing heads for printing color and monochrome images, respectively, and a media feed path for moving sheets of media by the printing heads. The media feed path has a color position in which the color printing heads print color images and the monochrome printing head prints monochrome images, and a monochrome position in which the monochrome printing head prints monochrome images but the color printing heads cannot print color images. A memory stores data on prior print jobs, and a control circuit switches the media feed path from the color position to the monochrome position in response to the data stored in the memory.

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Hendersonville, TN, United States of America

Christy Mitchell West