METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED JOB RECOVERY

A dynamic job recovery system for an electronic reprographic printing system provides warranted performance by monitoring and ensuring variable data job integrity and consistent output appearance through close control of image quality and content integrity. The system monitoring the performance of a particular attribute indicative of one of image quality and variable data content integrity, preferably with real-time control, with one or more warranted performance sensors while in a customer print job mode. If monitored attributes are within desired specification and integrity, processing of the customer print job is continued. A warranted performance fault action is conducted if one or more attributes are out of range. When this occurs, print sheets in progress are purged to a purge tray (those with compromised integrity or quality and upstream incomplete sheets). Then, a diagnostic routine is initialized without machine cycle down to identify sources of the fault. If automatic recovery is possible, such job recovery is initiated upon completion of diagnostic testing to resume customer print job where it left off to provide a complete print job with warranted performance without operator intervention.