Patent ID: 8249480

Claim:
Method for maintaining print quality based on temperature measurements for a fuser for fusing toner to sheets of receiver media in an electrostatographic printer, comprising for each dedicated run of a specified receiver media, the steps of: a. providing a first data set, including set points representative of one or more media types; b. providing a second data set representative of a particular type of arriving media as a current media type; c. providing third data set representative of current thermal set-points related to a current set-up, including the current media type; d. selectively adjusting a release system adjacent to a pressure member at a release angle α from a line through a fusing nip in accordance with at least one of the data sets using a controller for changing the release angle α in accordance with the type of receiver media and the image on the current media type e. selectively moving a heating roller into contact with the fuser and increasing the temperature to an annealing temperature to refurbish the fuser.