Printer with improved page feed

摘要

Feeding a plurality of successive sheets of a recording medium into a printer by calculating an expected time when a page end detection of a current sheet is expected, and feeding a next sheet of the successive sheets in accordance with the calculated time, but prior to detection of the page end of the current sheet. Calculating the expected time may be detecting the page end for the current sheet, and mathematically filtering the page end detection of the current sheet with a current estimate of expected time for page end detection of the next sheet so as to update the estimate throughout processing of the successive sheets. The current estimate may be initialized after a first sheet of the successive sheets with a page end detection of the first sheet.