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Abstract

A method is provided for printing a print job on a printing system configured by means of printing system settings. The printer includes a print engine and a control unit including a scheduler for scheduling the print job in time. The print job has a plurality of print job settings. The method includes receiving a print job, determining a range of possible print job durations for the print job based on at least one group of settings out of the group of printing system settings, the group of the print job settings and the group of settings for a change-over time between print jobs of a pair of subsequent print jobs, determining a minimum of the range to be an optimistic print job duration for the print job, determining a maximum of the range to be a pessimistic print job duration for the print job, selecting a print job duration for the print job out of the optimistic print job duration and the pessimistic print job duration, based on a selection criterion, scheduling the print job by the scheduler in a scheduling scheme according to the selected print job duration, and printing the print job according to the scheduling scheme.

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