Patent Document ID: 8330965
Application ID: 11403785
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A multi-functional multi-engine print platform, comprising: a digital front end that receives a job for processing by the platform; at least two marking engines that process jobs; a marking engine analyzer that determines image quality defects of the at least two marking engines; a job analyzer that determines a content of the job; an intelligence component that monitors characteristics of at least one of the at least two marking engines and compares the monitored characteristics against measurements and pattern statistics from operable and inoperable marking engines to track trends indicative that the first one marking engine is transitioning from an operative state to a defective state; and a scheduler being operative to receive transition trends corresponding to a state of the at least two marking engines, the scheduler further operative to create a plan to process the job based on content of the job by using the first one of the at least two marking engines determined as producing or transitioning toward producing defects for rendering a first portion of the job that is not subject to incurring an image defect and continuing use of a second one of the at least two marking engines for rendering a second portion of the job that is subject to incurring the image defect if rendered by the first one such that a visibility of the defect is minimized in images reproduced by the at least two marking engines.