System and method for monitoring ink use in a printing system

A computer-implemented system for determining ink utilization in a printing system, comprising:

• an ink monitoring computer including a processor and non-transient memory including instructions stored thereon to determine ink utilization in an ink reservoir based on
• receiving a characterization of a print condition to determine dry ink utilization per area of coverage at a printing system computer;
• applying an ink usage correction multiplier to determine wet ink utilization based on the dry ink utilization to generate corrected image ink utilization;
• determining an area of coverage for a given printed image;
• determining printed image count information including a number of printings of the given printed image;
• and
• determining total wet ink utilization based on the area of coverage, the corrected image ink utilization and the printed image count information.