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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorsBryan D. Wolf, Kevin A. Owen, Jeffrey Jay Anderson
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A method and apparatus for determining whether or not sufficient consumable supplies such as toner or ink and print media, for example, are available to an imaging device such as a printer to complete a submitted print job. The method determines the amount of selected consumable supplies remaining and, based on the requirements of a submitted print job and historical data gathered over the lifetime of the imaging device, calculates the amount of consumable supplies required for the print job and compares that to the amount of consumable supplies available. If insufficient consumable supplies are available, the user is notified of the condition. The user then knows at the time the print job is submitted that sufficient consumable supplies are available and that the print job will be complete and available at the printer. The user is further notified that specific consumable supplies are in need of replenishment.
In a printer network including a host computer and at least one printing device wherein a reservoir contains a marking material for creating images on a print media, and includes a means for determining the amount of marking material in the reservoir and a processor, a method for determining whether or not sufficient marking material remains to complete a print job submitted by a user, comprising the steps of:
A computer program product for determining whether or not sufficient consumable supplies are available to complete a print job submitted to an imaging device by a user and displaying a notification message to the user in the event insufficient consumable supplies are available to complete the submitted print job, the computer program product comprising:
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