Patent ID: 7283762

Claim:
A printing architecture comprising: at least a first print engine and a second print engine and transport assemblies which convey substrate outputs of the first and second print engines to a common finisher assembly, the first print engine including a first fuser system having a first fusing member for fusing marking particles on a substrate and the second print engine including a second fuser system having a second fusing member for fusing marking particles on the substrate, the printing architecture having a sensor system, comprising: a calibration system for maintaining uniform gloss characteristics between printed images generated by the first fusing system and the second fusing system, said calibration system including a sensor for sensing a gloss value indicative of the gloss of the fused marking particles on the substrate outputs of the first and second print engines; and a controller for adjusting the gloss level of said first and second fusing members to maintain a uniform gloss characteristic between said first and second fusing members, the controller adjusting a temperature level of said first and second fusing members in response to the sensed gloss values.