Environmental watermarking a print request
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRobert J Lawton, Jerry A Young, George B Clifton
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for environmental watermarking. According to one embodiment, a print request is received at a printing device coupled to a processing unit, which evaluates whether an environmental print criteria has been satisfied. The document along with an environmental watermark image is printed on the print media upon determination that at least one environmental print criterion has been satisfied.
Claims13
A method for environmental watermarking comprising:
- receiving, at a processing unit connected with a printing device, a print request associated with a document to be printed on a print media by the printing device;
- evaluating whether at least one environmental print criterion is satisfied for the print request, wherein the at least one environmental print criterion comprises at least one printer criterion of at least one setting of the printing device relating to environmental friendliness, wherein the at least one printer criterion includes a verification that a current print mode setting enables a particular energy consumption or that the printing device includes a certification for energy consumption;
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- printing the document on the print media along with an environmental watermark image when the at least one environmental print criterion is satisfied.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored executable instructions, that when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:
- receive a print request associated with a document to be printed on a print media by the printing device;
- evaluate whether at least one environmental print criterion is satisfied for the print request, wherein the at least one environmental print criterion comprises at least one printer criterion of at least one setting of the printing device relating to environmental friendliness, wherein the at least one printer criterion includes a verification that a current print mode setting enables a particular energy consumption or that the printing device includes a certification for energy consumption;
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- print the document on the print media along with an environmental watermark image when the at least one environmental print criterion is satisfied.
An environmental watermarking system for a print document, the system comprising:
- a printing device;
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- a processing unit configured to process print requests associated with the print document to be printed on a print media by the printing device and evaluate whether at least one environmental print criterion is satisfied for the print requests, wherein the at least one environmental print criterion comprises at least one printer criterion of at least one setting of the printing device relating to environmental friendliness, wherein the at least one printer criterion includes a verification that a current print mode setting enables a particular energy consumption or that the printing device includes a certification for energy consumption,
- wherein an environmental watermark is printed along with the print document on the print media upon a determination that the at least one environmental print criterion is satisfied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.