EP0469865A2
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Electronic printing
Assignee: Xerox Corp
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Filing: 1991-07-30
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2011-07-30
Abstract
Abstract Discloses a method for automatically sorting jobs in a print queue according to the characteristics of the job to be printed and the selected printing priority.
Inventors
- 👤 Alane H. Rowold
- 👤 Karen L. Dahlby
- 👤 David L. Salgado
- 👤 Sharon A. Kaisen
- 👤 Acco Hengst
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 10:12
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/00912; H04N1/00915; G; G06; G06F; G06F3/00; G06F3/12; G06F3/1201; G06F3/1202; G06F3/1211; G06F3/1223; G06F3/1237; G06F3/126; G06F3/1263; G06F3/1278; G06F3/1285; G06K; G06K15/00; H04N1/32; H04N1/32561; G06K2215/00; G06K2215/0002; G06K2215/0005; G06K2215/0017; H04N2201/00; H04N2201/0077; H04N2201/0081; H04N2201/0082
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
126 words
A method for establishing the order in which jobs in the form of electronic pages are reproduced on a copy medium by a printer having N paper trays for supplying print media on which the jobs can be printed, the jobs being arranged in a print queue, including the steps of: selecting the order in which the jobs in the queue are to be printed; reviewing the properties of the jobs in the queue to identify the print medium programmed for each job; comparing the print medium programmed for each job with the print media in the paper trays; and changing the order in which the jobs are arranged in the queue in accordance with the presence of the programmed print medium in the paper trays.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method according to claim 1, including the step of changing the order in which the jobs are arranged in the print queue in response to the print media in the paper trays being changed.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
47 words
The method according to claim 1, including the step of changing the order in which the jobs are arranged in the queue so that jobs having the programmed print media loaded in the paper trays are printed before jobs of which the print media are not loaded.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
118 words
A method for establishing the order in which jobs in the form of electronic pages are printed by a printer, the print jobs being arranged in a print queue for printing in a predetermined order, including the steps of: a) selecting one of the jobs in the queue for changing to a different position in the queue; b) in response to selection of the one job, and before its position is changed, preventing the printer from the said one job and c) repositioning jobs put in the queue after the said one job to in front thereof, while printing of the said one job is prevented, to enable printing of jobs in the queue to continue without interruption.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
105 words
A method for establishing the order in which jobs are printed by a printer that prints jobs from a print queue, the print jobs comprising documents converted to electronic pages, including the steps of: a) selecting a sort option for establishing order in which jobs in the queue are printed; b) detecting predetermined job characteristics associated with the selected sort option, and c) sorting jobs in the queue to be printed in accordance with their job characteristics, wherein the selected sort option arranges jobs in the queue in accordance with the amount of time required by the printer to print each job in the queue.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
101 words
A method for establishing the order in which jobs are printed by a printer that prints jobs from a print queue, the print jobs comprising documents converted to electronic pages, including the steps of: a) a selecting a sort option for establishing the order in which jobs in the queue are printed; b) detecting predetermined job characteristics associated with the selected sort option, and c) sorting jobs in the queue to be printed in accordance with their job characteristics, wherein the selected sort option arranges jobs in the queue in accordance with the finishing requirements of the jobs in the queue.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
37 words
A method according to claim 5 or 6, further including the steps of: d) insert a new job the queue, and e) resorting all the jobs in the resultant queue in accordance with the selected sort option.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method according to claim 7, including the step of arranging jobs in the queue so that short jobs are printed before longer jobs.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
32 words
A method according to claim 6, or claims 6 and 7, including the step of arranging jobs in the queue so that jobs requiring binding are printed before jobs not requiring binding.
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