Patent ID: 7676177

Claim:
A method of operating a printing apparatus, the apparatus having a rotatable imaging member, a scheduling system, and means for performing a selected one of a plurality of operations on a portion of the rotatable imaging member, comprising: populating a time frame of at least one image to be placed on the rotatable imaging member, wherein the time frame comprises a time and a magnitude that relates to the placement of at least one image on the rotatable imaging member; for an operation of a first type on the rotatable imaging member in the printing apparatus, scheduling, with the scheduling system, a first action, the first action defining a time duration associated with the operation of the first type, and defining a first portion having a first magnitude and a second portion having a second magnitude where the magnitude of the first portion is different from the magnitude of the second portion; for an operation of a second type on the rotatable imaging member in the printing apparatus, the operation of the second type being different from the operation of the first type, scheduling, with the scheduling system and before performing the first action, a second action, the second action defining at least one magnitude and a time duration associated with the operation of the second type, wherein the scheduled first action and the scheduled second action at least partially overlap in time; monitoring a combined magnitude of actions scheduled over time; and performing the operations on a portion of the rotatable imaging member based on the scheduled actions, wherein the method further comprises forbidding a scheduling of actions resulting in a combined magnitude greater than a predetermined maximum, wherein the first portion of the first action relates to placement of an image on the imaging member, and wherein the second portion of the first action is associated with a buffer associated with the image on the imaging member.