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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2010
Richard R. Carling, Webster, NY (US);
Victor I. Ibarluzea, Brockport, NY (US);
Sankarshanan Anantham, W. Henrietta, NY (US);
Hwai-tzuu Tai, Rochester, NY (US);
Richard R. Carling, Webster, NY (US);
Victor I. Ibarluzea, Brockport, NY (US);
Sankarshanan Anantham, W. Henrietta, NY (US);
Hwai-Tzuu Tai, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Automatically determining the cost of a printed job on a digital printing press before the job is run. A job control component in the digital front end of the printing press collects and stores the processing information from the job processing components from prior runs. A job-reporting component displays the stored and estimated processing information and automatically computes and displays the estimated cost of the job. The method includes determining a future toner cost using a toner cost, a future press usage cost, and a substrate cost based on historical toner consumption and then rasterizing the job to determine the total job cost.