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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2011
Yuwen Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jiang Hong, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuwen Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jiang Hong, San Jose, CA (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A print manager of a printing device is configured to retrieve a plurality of print options and features to be used to process a particular print job on the printing device, and to determine whether a resource conservation mode is specified for the printing device. In response to determining that the resource conservation mode is specified for the printing device, the print manager identifies, from the plurality of print options, one or more particular print options that are associated with the resource conservation mode, and generates a modified plurality of print options and features by changing a feature for each of the one or more particular print options to implement the resource conservation mode. In the resource conservation mode, the modified plurality of print options and features is used to process the particular print job to reduce an amount of consumable resources used to process the particular print job.