Patent ID: 8208154

Claim:
A method of intermediate job termination, comprising: submitting a main print job to a print station; submitting an interrupt job to the print station; calculating an expected termination point of the main job, upon submission of the interrupt job; resubmitting the main job together with the expected termination point to the print station such that the interrupt job starts printing at a sheet immediately following the expected termination point; printing the main job up to the expected termination point; printing an entirety of the interrupt job immediately following printing of the expected termination point; and resuming printing the main job at a next sheet of the main job immediately after the expected termination point, the resuming printing of the main job following a last sheet of the interrupt job, without interrupting a rhythmic pattern of printing between the last sheet of the interrupt job and the next sheet of the main job, such that an entirety of the main job and an entirety of the interrupt job are printed with no skipped pitches.