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US 11,597,211 B2Granted
Print material visual indicator
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAndrew Chick, Pratik Shah, Kenneth K Smith, Adam L Hornstein, Dustin C Rosing, Richard Motzkus
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to identifying an amount of remaining supply of a print material, selecting one of a plurality of threshold ranges associated with the amount of remaining print material, and updating a visual indicator indicative of the selected one of the plurality of threshold ranges.
Claims18
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
- identify an amount of remaining supply of a print material;
- display one of a plurality of segments corresponding to the amount of remaining supply of the print material;
- identify one of a plurality of threshold ranges corresponding to the amount of remaining supply of the print material;
- and
- display, according to the identified one of the plurality of threshold ranges, a visual indicator comprising an icon,
- wherein a first threshold range of the plurality of threshold ranges corresponds to an amount of print material to be provided by a replenishment device.
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A method comprising:
- identifying an amount of remaining supply of a print material;
- displaying one of a plurality of segments corresponding to the amount of remaining supply of the print material;
- identifying one of a plurality of threshold ranges corresponding to the amount of remaining supply of the print material;
- and
- updating a visual indicator corresponding to the one of the plurality of threshold ranges, wherein the visual indicator is configured to illuminate, in one of a plurality of colors, an icon associated with the print material,
- wherein a first threshold range of the plurality of threshold ranges corresponds to an amount of print material to be provided by a replenishment device.
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A system, comprising:
- a supply engine to:
- identify an amount of remaining supply of a printing material according to a number of remaining printable pages;
- and
- a display engine to:
- display one of a plurality of segments corresponding to the amount of remaining supply of the print material,
- identify one of a plurality of threshold ranges corresponding to the amount of remaining supply of the print material, and
- update a visual indicator corresponding to the one of the plurality of threshold ranges, wherein the visual indicator is configured to illuminate, in one of a plurality of colors, a plurality of icons associated with the print material,
- wherein a first threshold range of the plurality of threshold ranges corresponds to an amount of print material to be provided by a replenishment device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.