Patent ID: 8693021

Claim:
A printing system, comprising a plurality of print processing modules which selectively transfer print media therebetween during printing; said print processing modules includes at least two marking engines for selective said printing; wherein same said print media moves from one of the at least two marking engines selectively to another of the at least two marking engines; a controller that predicts an impending unhealthy state of at least one module and redirects at least one of an unprocessed job or a partially processed job preemptively from an impending unhealthy module to selectively a healthy module and another unhealthy module, with suitable capabilities, to process unprocessed portions of the at least one of an unprocessed job or a partially processed job; and, wherein the controller determines when the capabilities of the at least one module will reach the predicted diminished capabilities of the at least one module, prior to reaching the predicted diminished capabilities of the at least one module.