Patent ID: 8725017

Claim:
A printer comprising: a substrate transport apparatus for moving substrates through said printer along a substrate path; a pick mechanism for removing substrates from a storage tray and feeding said substrates to said substrate transport apparatus; a fuser assembly comprising a heat transfer member including a belt and a heater to heat said belt, a backup member for engaging said belt so as to define a fusing nip with said belt, and a temperature sensor associated with said backup member for sensing a temperature of said backup member; and a controller coupled to said substrate transport apparatus, said pick mechanism, said heater and said temperature sensor, said controller receiving said sensed temperature of said backup member from said temperature sensor and controlling said pick mechanism based upon the sensed temperature, said controller causing said pick mechanism to remove substrates from said storage tray at a first pick rate when said sensed temperature of said backup member is within a first temperature range of the backup member and at at least one different pick rate less than said first pick rate when said sensed temperature of said backup member is greater than said first temperature range of the backup member.