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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2001
Applicants:
Douglas Anthony Able, Shelbyville, KY (US);
Kevin Dean Schoedinger, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Inventors:
Douglas Anthony Able, Shelbyville, KY (US);
Kevin Dean Schoedinger, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Printer has a standby state in which the motor driving the laser scanning mirror is turned off immediately after a print job when another page is not ready. To increase operating speed, a signal to the printer starts a timer (Ready timer). When a page is printed, the timer is started and only when it reaches zero is the motor turned off. When data of a page is received by the printer and the Ready timer is non-zero, a sheet is immediately picked for printing.