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US 8,570,559 B2Granted
Printing system and method for analyzing document properties, calculating metrics, and selecting ink set
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKok-Wei Koh, Ehud Chatow, Gary J. Dispoto
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Abstract
A printing system and method include analyzing a plurality of properties of a document, and for each of a plurality of ink sets, calculating a metric for each of the properties.
Claims19
A printing system, comprising:
- a printer;
- a plurality of ink sets available to the printer;
- and
- a processor configured to analyze a plurality of properties of a document, and for each of the ink sets, calculate respective metrics for each of the properties, and in response to the metrics and user preference, select one of the ink sets.
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A printing method, comprising:
- analyzing a plurality of properties of a document;
- for each of a plurality of ink sets available to a printer, calculating respective metrics for each of the properties;
- and
- selecting one of the ink sets in response to the metrics and user preference.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing process instructions that when executed perform a printing method comprising:
- analyzing a plurality of properties of a document;
- and
- for each of a plurality of ink sets available to a printer, calculating respective metrics for each of the properties;
- selecting one of the ink sets in response to the metrics and user preference;
- and
- printing the document by the printer using the selected ink set.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.