Patent ID: 8810830

Claim:
A system for scheduling a print job for printing, comprising: computing hardware including a processor and memory; a print job profiler implemented by the computing hardware and which calculates a “time-to-print” a first print job and a “time-to-process” a second print job, the “time-to-print” including a time for actually printing the first print job after the first print job has been processed, and the “time-to-process” including a time for processing the second print job prior to the second print job being printed; and a print job scheduler implemented by the computing hardware and which schedules the second print job, for printing after the first print job, if the “time-to-process”the second print job is less than or equal to the “time-to-print” the first print job, after comparing the “time-to-process” the second print job to the “time-to-print” the first print job.