Intelligent toner saving for color copying
A software-controlled method for minimizing color toner use during copying of a color page by a color copier including (a) examining 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 copier along with instructions that the copier use, in the copying 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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Ronnie Neil Ching-Wei Richard John Lawrence Shao-hsien
Patton Chang Campbell Chen