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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2011
Paul William Morrison, St. Clair, AU;
David Robert James Monaghan, Eastwood, AU;
Ekaterina Stefanov, Normanhurst, AU;
Paul William Morrison, St. Clair, AU;
David Robert James Monaghan, Eastwood, AU;
Ekaterina Stefanov, Normanhurst, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method () of determining, for a rendering job () comprising one or more page building jobs, a start time for a print engine () to print the rendering job (), the method including determining () for the rendering job a current start time for printing based on at least a predicted finishing time of a page building job, determining () a difference between the predicted finishing time and an actual finishing time of the page building job, determining () if, based on the difference, a predetermined condition is satisfied, and if the predetermined criterion is satisfied, determining () an updated start time for printing the rendering job based on information relating to the actual finishing time of the page building job, and starting () the print engine to print the rendering job at the updated start time.