Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Scott S Lee

Theresa A Burkes

Michael B Lloyd

Lisa Johnson

Perry Victor Lea

Chris Richard Gunning

Randall Edward Grohs

Dana A Jacobsen

Richard M Dow

Douglas J Mellor

Steven Robert Folkner

Robert J Lavey

John Mauzey

Raymond S Kennedy

Terry-Lee M Fritz

Darryl J Richter

John M Bagley, Jr

Darren E Binder

Kari E Castleberry

Mark Irwin

An exemplary device implementation includes: a manager that is capable of monitoring a process for preparing a page for printing; and a print engine that is capable of printing the page after the process for preparing the page for printing is complete; wherein the device is adapted to temporally overlap the process for preparing the page for printing with preparation of the print engine for printing. An exemplary method implementation includes actions of: beginning processing of a page of a printing job; providing at least one command to a print engine responsive to at least one time remaining estimate for the processing of the page of the printing job prior to completion of the processing of the page of the printing job; and changing a state of the print engine responsive to the providing of the at least one command to the print engine.

Page processing and print engine management

A printing method for printing of a print job by a printing apparatus having a monochrome mode and a full-color mode. The method may include examining a portion of the print job to determine whether the portion includes a color page, and if the portion includes a color page, scheduling printing of a first page of the portion and one or more subsequent pages of the print job in a full-color mode, irrespective of the color content of the one or more subsequent pages.

Printing apparatus and method for monochrome mode and color mode switching

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Meridian, ID, United States of America

Scott S Lee