Patent ID: 9665318
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B41J,G06F,G06K,H04N,Y02D

Claim:
1. A computer system comprising: one or more computer processors; one or more computer-readable storage media; program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising instructions to: execute a set of possible commands in a printer rendering environment and calculating an average rendering time associated with each command of the set of possible commands to provide a rendering time table corresponding to the set of possible commands; receive page description language (PDL) data corresponding to a printing task; identify commands corresponding to the received PDL data; compute a total predicted rendering time corresponding to the identified commands by extracting rendering times corresponding to the identified commands from a table indicating average rendering times associated with PDL commands; compute a print deferral time according to the equation: T=R configure a printing drum to begin operation according to the print deferral time; and execute the received printing task according to the print deferral time.