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Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

James E. Bostick, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Brian W. Hansen, Cedar Park, TX (US);

John Paul Kaemmerer, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Raghuraman Kalyanaraman, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/17 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Inputs of scaled percentages of a single color of ink are received, each of the scaled percentages being associated with a color of multiple colors in a file, the color being different than the single color of ink and being associated with a separate cartridge position from among multiple cartridge positions of a printer. An input of the single color of ink is received, the single color of ink being one of the file colors. The file colors other than the single color of ink for the printer to print in the single color of ink scaled according to each of the scaled percentages.


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