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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
David Rozier, Bernin, FR;
Yves Hoppenot, Notre-Dame-de-Mèsage, FR;
Frederic Roulland, Le Versoud, FR;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides a method and system to promote the reduction of an environmental impact by one or more users of a printing system. According to an exemplary embodiment, a printing system includes a motivational platform and an operatively associated printer driver, the motivational platform recording the historical print activity of a plurality of users associated with a group and communicating the historical print activity to the print driver which is configured to provide an active user recommended selectable printer settings for a print job, prior to being submitted, which are based on best practices within the group.