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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2018
Karen Harrison Ferrel, Longmont, CO (US);
Michael Stewart Mcdermott, Longmont, CO (US);
Kenneth Stuart Shouldice, Firestone, CO (US);
John Thomas Varga, Longmont, CO (US);
David Ward, Broomfield, CO (US);
Karen Harrison Ferrel, Longmont, CO (US);
Michael Stewart McDermott, Longmont, CO (US);
Kenneth Stuart Shouldice, Firestone, CO (US);
John Thomas Varga, Longmont, CO (US);
David Ward, Broomfield, CO (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for scheduling high priority print jobs with minimal paper waste. One embodiment is a printing system that includes a print controller having a print data path with intermediate queues and a last queue to store print ready bitmap data. The print controller monitors the last queue to determine an estimate time for printing the print ready bitmap data stored in the last queue, determines whether the estimate time exceeds a time threshold, and determines whether a high priority print job is detected in the job storage system. In response to determining that the estimate time exceeds the time threshold and detecting the high priority print job, the print controller halts processing of at least one of the plurality of print jobs that is not the high priority print job, and advances processing of the high priority print job on the print data path.