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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
Barry Paul Mandel, Fairport, NY (US);
Saurabh Prabhat, Webster, NY (US);
Martin Edward Banton, Fairport, NY (US);
Barry Paul Mandel, Fairport, NY (US);
Saurabh Prabhat, Webster, NY (US);
Martin Edward Banton, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiments, a method for scheduling at least one print job for a plurality of printers of a given type is provided. The method includes determining a job length for the at least one print job. The method further includes scheduling a sequence of printing by the plurality of printers based the job length such that a subset of the available plurality of printers is cycled up, and printing the at least one print job with the subset of available printers when the job length is less than at least one predeterminable threshold.