Intelligent toner saving for color printing
A software-controlled method for minimizing color toner use during printing of a color page by a color printer including (a) examining the image data for such a page to identify different pre-selected categories of page-contained image elements, (b) associating, with identified different-categories of such elements, specific, respective, pre-determined color-toner usage rules, and (c) following the associating step, outputting the elements to the printer along with instructions that the printer use, in the printing of such elements, the correct, respectively associated color-toner usage rule(s). From a structural point of view, the invention includes examining structure, associating structure, and output structure designed to perform the basic core methodology steps of the invention.
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
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Lawrence Shao-hsien Ching-Wei Richard John Ronnie Neil
Chen Chang Campbell Patton