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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2018
James Anthony Chauvin, Frederick, CO (US);
Larry M Ernst, Longmont, CO (US);
JO S. Kirkenaer, Broomfield, CO (US);
James Anthony Chauvin, Frederick, CO (US);
Larry M Ernst, Longmont, CO (US);
Jo S. Kirkenaer, Broomfield, CO (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for selectively qualifying printers for printing incoming jobs, based on an amount of colors within the job that the printers can reproduce. One embodiment is a system that includes an interface and a memory storing a print job defined in a job color space. The system also includes a controller that identifies colors specified by print data in the print job, determines coordinates of the colors in a perceptual color space, selects a printer, determines boundaries of a color gamut of the printer in the perceptual color space, and determines an amount of the colors that the printer is capable of reproducing. When the amount is greater than a threshold, the controller qualifies the printer for printing the print job. When the amount is less than the threshold, the controller disqualifies the printer from printing the print job.