Digital image printing a job including monochromatic and color images
US8284416B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 27, 2009 |
| Grant date | Oct 9, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 5, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/00021
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Separate multicolorant and monochromatic digital image marking engines are operated concurrently for print jobs having both monochromatic and color images. The marked multicolorant image sheets are batch printed and held in a sheet buffer and interspersed in sequence with the monochromatic marked sheets without interrupting the faster monochromatic marking engine or requiring multiple unnecessary run cost increasing start up and shut down cycles of the multicolorant marking engine.
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