Method for providing reduced cost imaging to customers
AssigneeLexmark International, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Adkins, Timothy Strunk
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Abstract
A method for reducing a cost of imaging to a customer includes determining a rate of consumption of imaging substance from a supply item; and, based on the rate of consumption, offering to the customer an imaging reward.
Claims20
A method for reducing a cost of imaging to a customer, comprising:
- determining a rate of consumption of imaging substance from a supply item;
- and,
- based on said rate of consumption, offering to said customer an imaging reward.
A supply item for use in an imaging apparatus, the supply item being associated with memory for storing information upon which a rate of consumption of imaging substance from said supply item can be determined, wherein at least one of a cost and an amount of imaging substance associated with an imaging reward is based on said rate of consumption.
A method for reducing a cost of imaging to a customer, comprising:
- determining a rate of consumption of imaging substance from a supply item during a current license, wherein an amount of said imaging substance in said supply item is more than will be consumed during said current license;
- and,
- based on said rate of consumption during said current license, offering to said customer a new license for at least a portion of a remainder of said amount of imaging substance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.