Patent ID: 9390351
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: B41J,G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. A printing method comprising: determining a position of a receiver media in a thermal printer relative to a first thermal printhead and a second thermal printhead; determining whether the receiver media is nearer to the first thermal printhead or the second thermal printhead at an end of a print job; selecting the first thermal printhead or the second thermal printhead for a next print job, wherein the selected thermal printhead is the printhead determined to be nearer to the position of the receiver media; and starting the next print job in duplex format using the selected thermal printhead, including printing a second page of the next print job using the selected thermal printhead before printing a first page of the next print job using one of said two thermal printheads that was not determined to be nearer the receiving media before starting said next print job.