Automatic access to high-level explanations of scheduling conflicts in print engine schedules

Abstract

Methods and devices receive scheduling constraints for sheets of print media being processed as a print job through a printing device, and prepare a timing schedule for each of the sheets of print media based on the scheduling constraints. The timing schedule determines a location of each of the sheets of print media relative to the processing components of the printing device and relative to a linear time scale. Such methods and devices augment the timing schedule to produce an augmented timing schedule by adding explanatory text to the timing schedule, and receive user input selecting a portion of the augmented timing schedule. In response to the user input that selects a portion of the augmented timing schedule, the methods and devices output corresponding portions of the explanatory text that correspond to a location on the linear time scale represented by the selected portion of the augmented timing schedule.