System and method for estimating toner usage for a printing system
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsWilliam Samuel Jacobs, Michael E. Farrell
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Abstract
A method for determining a toner usage estimate for a print job to be performed by a printing system having at least one print engine and at least one controller includes determining a set of print conditions for the print job and selecting a set of parameters associated with the print conditions. The method further includes estimating a total amount of toner usage for each of the print job's pages. The set of parameters may include image rendering, job dependent and engine dependent parameters.
Claims19
A method for determining a toner usage estimate for a print job to be performed by a printing system having at least two print engines, each of the at least two print engines having at least one corresponding controller, the method comprising:
- determining a set of print conditions for the print job;
- selecting a set of parameters associated with the print conditions;
- determining a second set of parameters from the set of parameters such that the determined second set of parameters substantially influence toner usage on a print engine of the printing system;
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- estimating a total amount of toner usage for at least one page of a print job utilizing the determined second set of parameters by determining which at least one of the second set of parameters most influences toner usage for a particular print engine of the printing system,
- wherein the second set of parameters includes job dependent and engine dependent parameters, the job and engine dependent parameters including system purging and photoreceptor position tracking.
A method for determining a toner usage estimate for a print job to be performed by a printing system having at least two print engines, comprising:
- providing a computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions capable of being executed by at least one processor of the printing system;
- determining a set of parameters that influence toner usage for a print engine of the printing system;
- determining a second set of parameters from the set of parameters such that the determined second set of parameters substantially influence toner usage on a print engine of the printing system;
- analyzing at least one page in accordance with at least one of the set of parameters and the second set of parameters;
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- estimating a total amount of toner usage for the at least one page utilizing the second set of parameters by determining which at least one of the second set of parameters most influences toner usage for a particular print engine of the printing system, the second set of parameters including job dependent and engine dependent parameters, the job and engine dependent parameters including system purging, and photoreceptor position tracking.
In a printing system for estimating toner usage having at least two print engines, each print engine having at least one corresponding print controller, a method for estimating toner usage comprising:
- selecting a print system and a printing behavior to be modeled;
- determining a set of parameters that influence toner usage for the selected print system and printing behavior;
- analyzing the set of parameters to determine which parameters are most relevant for a particular print controller or print engine;
- determining a second set of parameters from the set of parameters such that the determined second set of parameters substantially influence toner usage for the particular print controller or the print engine;
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- utilizing the second set of parameters to create a toner usage model by determining which at least one of the second set of parameters most influences toner usage for a particular print engine of the printing system, wherein the second set of parameters includes system purging and photoreceptor position tracking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.