Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Phillip Eugene Miller, Ii

Carl Michael Dennison

Systems and methods are provided for seeding print defects and inspecting print jobs. One embodiment is a system that includes a print server. The print server includes an interface that receives a test print job, a memory that stores the test print job, and a print controller that determines a number of copies of the test print job to print, subdivides each sheetside image of the test print job into a number of distinct zones corresponding to the number of copies, assigns each of the zones to a different copy of the test print job, and for each copy of the test print job, and seeds a print defect into each sheetside image of the copy within a zone assigned to the copy.

Print defect seeding within selected zones for print verification system

Systems and methods are provided for evaluation of a print verification system. One embodiment is a print system that includes a printer, a virtual printer, a print verification system, and a print server. The print server is configured to initiate an evaluation of the print verification system by providing a defective version of a print job to one of the printer and the virtual printer and providing a non-defective version of the print job to the other one of the printer and the virtual printer. The print server verifies functionality of the print verification system based on whether the print verification system detects the defects via comparison of the printed output of the print job by the printer against the bitmap image output of the print job by the virtual printer.

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Phillip Eugene Miller, Ii