Method for establishing a maintenance time interval for a printing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9296237-B2
Application number	US-201514825253-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 13, 2015
Priority date	Feb 18, 2013
Publication date	Mar 29, 2016
Grant date	Mar 29, 2016

Abstract

A method of establishing a time interval between maintenance actions expressed in pages for a printing device, includes determining the number of pages of an incoming print job, comparing the determined number of pages to a predetermined time interval between the maintenance actions expressed in pages, changing the predetermined time interval into at least one new time interval between the maintenance actions expressed in pages based on the comparison, printing the incoming print job, and carrying out at least one maintenance action after the start of printing of the incoming print job according to the at least one new time interval. A printing device includes a print unit and a print controller for planning maintenance actions on the print unit according to the method.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of establishing a time interval between consecutive maintenance actions for a printing device, the method comprising the steps of:
determining a job time needed to print an incoming print job;
comparing the determined job time to a predetermined maximum allowed time interval between the maintenance actions;
if the determined job time is larger than the maximum allowed time interval, scheduling a plurality of maintenance actions, at least one mai…

Assignees

• Oce Tech Bv

Inventors

• Groenen Paulus A C
• Sevenich Johannes B M

Classifications

• B41J29/38 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2002/16573

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16517 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic