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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2008
James B. Campbell, Beaverton, OR (US);
Francis Kapo Tse, Rochester, NY (US);
Xing LI, Webster, NY (US);
David J. Metcalfe, Marion, NY (US);
James B. Campbell, Beaverton, OR (US);
Francis Kapo Tse, Rochester, NY (US);
Xing Li, Webster, NY (US);
David J. Metcalfe, Marion, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system calculates appropriate billing within an imaging pipeline. An input component receives an image that is described as a plurality of pixels. A PDL component receives the image and determines a location, a color and a designation for each of the one or more pixels. A marking engine modifies the one or more pixels based at least in part on the location and the color provided by the PDL component and places each of the one or more pixels as a monochrome or a composite pixel on a substrate. An analysis component counts the number of monochrome and composite pixels placed on the substrate by the marking engine, the number of composite pixels that include a designation are counted as monochrome. A billing component calculates the cost for placing each of the monochrome and the composite pixels counted by the analysis component.