Printing device entry into reduced print material usage mode
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsGabriel Scott McDaniel, Scott K. Hymas, Jeffrey H. Luke
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Abstract
Upon fulfillment of a replacement cartridge of print material, whether projected usage of a printing device will likely deplete a current cartridge of print material prior to anticipated arrival of the replacement cartridge is determined. Responsive to determination that the projected usage will likely deplete the current cartridge prior to the anticipated arrival of the replacement cartridge, the printing device is to enter a reduced print material usage mode during subsequent actual usage of the printing device.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- upon fulfillment of a replacement cartridge of print material that is to replace a current cartridge of print material in a printing device, determining, by a processor, whether projected usage of the printing device in the future will likely deplete the current cartridge prior to anticipated arrival of the replacement cartridge such that the replacement cartridge will likely not have arrived and be unavailable to replace the current cartridge in the printing device when the current cartridge is depleted;
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- responsive to determination that the projected usage will likely deplete the current cartridge prior to the anticipated arrival of the replacement cartridge, causing, by the processor, the printing device to enter a reduced print material usage mode during subsequent actual usage of the printing device to use less print material from the current cartridge during the subsequent actual usage to reduce a likelihood that the current cartridge will be depleted before the replacement cartridge does arrive.
A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing program code executable by a processor to perform processing comprising:
- as a printing device prints print jobs using print material from a current cartridge, receiving print material usage information regarding the print jobs;
- upon fulfillment of a replacement cartridge of print material that is to replace the current cartridge in the printing device, determining projected usage of the print material from the current cartridge in the future, based on the received print material usage information;
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- responsive to determining that the projected usage will likely deplete the current cartridge prior to anticipated arrival of the replacement cartridge such that the replacement cartridge will likely not have arrived and be unavailable to replace the current cartridge in the printing device when the current cartridge is depleted, instructing the printing device to enter a reduced print material usage mode in printing subsequent print jobs to use less print material from the current cartridge when printing the subsequent print jobs to reduce a likelihood that the current cartridge will be depleted before the replacement cartridge does arrive.
A printing device comprising:
- network hardware to communicatively connect to a computing device over a network:
- printing hardware to print jobs using print material from a current cartridge;
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- logic hardware to:
- send print material usage information regarding the print jobs to the computing device;
- receive instruction from the computing device to enter a reduced print material usage mode, responsive to determination, at fulfillment of a replacement cartridge that is to replace the current cartridge in the printing device, that projected usage in the future will likely deplete the current cartridge prior to anticipated arrival of a replacement cartridge such that the replacement cartridge will likely have not arrived and be unavailable to replace the current cartridge in the printing device when the current cartridge is depleted;
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- responsively cause the printing hardware to print subsequent print jobs in the reduced print material usage mode to use less print material from the current cartridge when printing the subsequent print jobs to reduce a likelihood that the current cartridge will be depleted before the replacement cartridge does arrive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.