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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
May. 25, 2005
Robert M. Lofthus, Webster, NY (US);
Kristine A. German, Webster, NY (US);
Dusan G. Lysy, Fairport, NY (US);
Robert M. Lofthus, Webster, NY (US);
Kristine A. German, Webster, NY (US);
Dusan G. Lysy, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A printing system capable of concurrently processing a plurality of job streams and including one or more marking engines and multiple print media destinations is controlled by a controller that includes a jobs scheduler for determining a schedule for processing queued print jobs using the plurality of concurrent job streams. The job scheduler determines the schedule using a method including: determining a utility function dependent at least upon user preference weighting values, a system model of capabilities of the parallel printing system, and the schedule of the queued print jobs; and optimizing the utility function respective to the schedule of queued print jobs.