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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2019
Applicant:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Inventors:
Douglas Anthony Able, Shelbyville, KY (US);
Kevin Dean Schoedinger, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC, Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5095 (2013.01); B41J 29/38 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging system having methods for reducing churn in an imaging device which includes identifying a number of unproductive revolutions made in a print engine of the imaging device, determining whether the number of unproductive revolutions exceeds a predetermined threshold, and performing at least one of: using a predetermined speed limit when printing a page and disabling a function in the imaging device upon the determination that the number of unproductive revolutions exceeds the predetermined threshold.