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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2005
Karl F. Klopsch, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Uwe Meister, Elk Grove, CA (US);
Karl F. Klopsch, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Uwe Meister, Elk Grove, CA (US);
Bell and Howell, LLC, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
Multiple print streams destined for individual print stream processing modules are optimized prior to printing. The process of optimizing includes receiving an input representing a plurality of documents to be printed and determining an attribute of each document of the plurality of documents represented by the input. The attribute relates to processing of the respective document through the document processing system. Optimization involves balancing an operation time of a first print stream processing module with an operation time of a second print stream processing module, by assigning each document to one of the print stream processing modules based on its determined attribute.