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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2001
Matthew Christopher Coriale, Lexington, KY (US);
Christopher Edward Rhoads, Georgetown, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A method for calculating a print medium pick time for an imaging apparatus that transports media at variable speeds along a media path, includes the steps of providing a staging process for varying a transport velocity of a media sheet before transferring an image to the media sheet at the image transfer location, the staging process being used for positioning a top writing line margin of the media sheet in relation to the image at the image transfer location; determining a time period t corresponding to a time when a pick motor is started to pick the media sheet to a time when the staging process is started; determining a derived time period t representative of a normalized time from when the staging process is started to a time when a media path sensor senses the media sheet; and determining a compensated calculated pick time for the media sheet by summing the time period t with the time period t .