Lexmark International, Inc.

Michael Duane Donovan

Tommy Otis Lowe

Daniel Scott Powell

Thomas Daniel Brown

Kevin Dean Schoedinger

Jichang Cao

Douglas Campbell Hamilton

Patrick Laurence Kroger

Martin Alan Johnson

Thomas Allen Bailey

Nathan Wayne Foley

Timothy Lee Anderson

Patrick Oscar Bischel

James Lesesne Bush, Iii

Timothy Scott Crammer

A printer is provided having a fuser assembly having a belt, a heater to heat the belt, a backup roll positioned to engage the belt thereby defining a fusing nip with the belt, a main temperature sensor associated with the heat transfer member, the first temperature sensor associated with the backup roll for sensing a temperature of a portion of the backup roll, the second temperature sensor associated with a distal end region of the heat transfer member for sensing the temperature of the distal end region. A controller is coupled to the fuser assembly for controlling a throughput of the printer based on at least one of the backup roll temperature and the temperature at the distal end region of the heater.

Narrow media throughput control using temperature feedback

A system and a method for improving total job time without needing to know a job size. An engine dynamically decides which process speed to warm up to based on a number and size of pages currently submitted to the engine, and thus deliver the best job time dynamically. The engine also takes into account its condition and a condition of a fuser, and dynamically selects a substantially optimum point of operation.

Method and system for selecting total job time print

An imaging apparatus includes a print engine for printing on a print medium. A device is communicatively coupled with the print engine. The device is programmed to set a throughput rate for the print engine. A controller reads the device, and operates the print engine at the throughput rate designated by the device.

Method for configuring the throughput rate of an imaging apparatus

Imaging apparatus having a programmable throughput rate

A method for calibrating a printhead includes printing a test pattern, scanning the test pattern to obtain calibration data, performing an ink drop velocity optimization for the printhead using the calibration data, and determining a bi-directional offset based on the calibration data.

Method and apparatus for calibrating a printhead

An imaging device, such as a printer, scanner, copier, multifunctional printer, and the like includes a sensor to detect the size of media fed into the imaging device. The detected media size can be set as the default media size for further operations, if desired.

Apparatus and method for establishing a default media size for an imaging device

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Lexington, KY, United States of America

Michael Duane Donovan