Patent ID: 8264710

Claim:
A device comprising: a scanner to scan a scanning target to produce an electronic image of the scanning target, the scanning target defined by a page of media presented to the scanner; and a printer to print an image of the scanning target on a media, the printer including a print engine; wherein the device is to overlap the scanning of the scanning target with preparation of the print engine for printing responsive to (i) a time remaining prediction just for the scanner to produce the electronic image of the scanning target such that the time remaining prediction does not include any time to transmit the electronic image of the scanning target from the scanner to the printer, and (ii) a timing just for the print engine to switch from an idle state to a spun-up state such that the timing does not include any timing in which the print engine actually performs printing, and wherein no printing of the image of the scanning target is performed until the scanning target has been completely scanned, wherein the printer reaches a ready state at a same time the image is ready to be printed, the ready state indicating that the printer has finished warming up and is now able to print.