Patent ID: 7647018

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a first and second printing system module, each module configured to mark and fuse an image on a media sheet; at least one media sheet path interfacing the printing system modules; and a job scheduler configured to execute one or more printing system print jobs, the job scheduler configured to execute computer instructions to perform a method comprising: receiving a print job to be printed using at least one printing system module; analyzing the image content of the print job and determining if the print job requires a media sheet to be marked with an image using two or more printing system modules or the print job requires a media sheet to be marked with an image using only one printing system module; for print jobs requiring two or more printing system modules for marking, routing a media sheet to a first printing system module for preshrinking without marking an image on the media sheet, and subsequently routing the preshrunk media sheet to a second printing system module for marking an image on the media sheet; and for print jobs requiring only one printing system module for marking an image on a media sheet, routing a media sheet to one of the printing system modules for marking an image on the media sheet.