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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Takuya Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for minimizing power consumption of a laser printer includes receiving page description language (PDL) data corresponding to a printing task, identifying commands corresponding to the received PDL data, computing a total predicted rendering time corresponding to the identified commands, computing a print deferral time according to the total predicted rendering time wherein the print deferral time corresponds to an amount of time by which printing drum initialization can be deferred without delaying completion of the printing task, and configuring a printing drum to begin operation according to the print deferral time. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the method are also disclosed.