METHOD TO FORECAST CONSUMPTION OF EXPENDABLE MATERIALS AND COST OF PRINT JOB COMPLETION Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC G06N7/00 

FIELD: printing industry.

SUBSTANCE: method includes the following stages: selection of a printed document; transformation of the document into colour space of the printing system; imitation of halftoning procedure; assessment of expendable materials consumption per dot; calculation of expendable materials amount necessary to complete the print job; calculation of expendable materials cost necessary to complete the print job; set-up of printing parameters or adjustment of the source document; addition of the print job into the print queue; updating the necessary quantity of expendable materials and paper required to complete the print queue; updating planning of the system maintenance; updating average quantity of expendable materials and paper; replenishment of expendable materials and paper inventory, if the inventory is not sufficient; printing the number of copies; measurement of actual consumption of expendable materials; correction of rated quantity of expendable materials consumption per dot.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of forecasting.

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