Ink management and monitoring mechanism
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsJames M. Herold, Jeffrey A. Schilling
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Abstract
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a print job to be printed, determining if the print job is to be printed as a monochrome print job, invoking a monochrome International Color Consortium (ICC) profile if the print job is determined to be a monochrome print job, printing the monochrome print job and tracking a first print volume during periods in which the monochrome ICC profile has been invoked.
Claims15
A printer comprising:
- a graphical user interface to select from among a list of print jobs designated as either monochrome or color;
- a control unit to identify a print job as a monochrome print job or a color print job, the control unit including:
- a color management unit having:
- a first set of International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles;
- and
- a second set of ICC profiles, wherein the control unit invokes a first profile within the first set of ICC profiles to perform color mapping from a source color space to a destination color space upon a determination that the print job is a monochrome print job, and invokes a first profile within the second set of ICC profiles to perform color mapping from the source color space to a destination color space upon a determination that the print job is a color print job;
- and
- a monitor to track a print volume of the monochrome print job during periods in which the first set of ICC profiles has been invoked and track a print volume of the color print job during periods in which the second set of ICC profiles has been invoked.
A method comprising:
- receiving a print job to be printed;
- determining whether the print job is to be printed as a monochrome print job;
- invoking a first profile within a set of monochrome International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles to perform color mapping from a source color space to a destination color upon a determination that the print job is a monochrome print job;
- printing the monochrome print job;
- tracking a print volume of the monochrome print job during periods in which the first ICC profile has been invoked;
- invoking a first profile within a set of color ICC profiles to perform color mapping from the source color space to a destination color upon a determination that the print job is a color print job;
- and
- tracking a print volume of the color print job during periods in which the second ICC profile has been invoked.
An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a print job to be printed;
- determining whether the print job is to be printed as a monochrome print job;
- invoking a first profile within a set of monochrome International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles to perform color mapping from a source color space to a destination color upon a determination that the print job is a monochrome print job;
- printing the monochrome print job;
- tracking a print volume of the monochrome print job during periods in which the first ICC profile has been invoked;
- invoking a first profile within a set of color ICC profiles to perform color mapping from the source color space to a destination color upon a determination that the print job is a color print job;
- and
- tracking a print volume of the color print job during periods in which the second ICC profile has been invoked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.