Job interrupt for electronic copying/printing machines

Details Job interrupt for electronic copying/printing machines Job interrupt for electronic copying/printing machines

1992-03-25

1993-04-27

Fuller, Benjamin R.

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Recording apparatus

358437, 355313, H04N 0121, G03G 2100

Patent

active

052067351

ABSTRACT:
An electronic printer with a scanner for scanning the document pages of a job and converting the document images scanned to pixels, a printer for making prints of the documents from the pixels in accordance with job programming instructions, the scanner and printer operating asynchronously with respect to one another, and interruption of a job to process a special job is effected by interrupting the job currently being scanned by the scanner to scan the special job while continuing printing of other jobs in the print queue, and when the special job is ready, interrupting the job being printed to print the special job while resuming scanning of the interrupted job, and then continuing the printing of the interrupted job upon completion of the special job.

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