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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1999
Jean-Jacques Moreau, Rennes, FR;
Mickaël Lorgeoux, Rennes, FR;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Management of resources of at least one printing product available in a printer includes: predicting a quantity of a printing product necessary for printing a document by a computer connected to the printer; creating a table of limited capacity from digital data representing adjacent bands of the document; before printing the document, measuring a quantity of printing product still available in a corresponding reservoir of the printer; comparing the predicted quantity and the measured quantity; and, if the measured quantity is lower than the predicted quantity, sending a message and/or triggering implementation of a processing before printing the document.