Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Green printing: re-purposing a document to save ink and paper
- Patent Title (中): 绿色打印:重新设计文件以节省墨水和纸张
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Application No.: US12849231Application Date: 2010-08-03
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Publication No.: US09032284B2Publication Date: 2015-05-12
- Inventor: Kapil Arora , Harsh Vardhan Chopra , Naveen Goel , Mayur Hemani , Himanshu Jindal , Neha Rastogi , Hemant Virmani
- Applicant: Kapil Arora , Harsh Vardhan Chopra , Naveen Goel , Mayur Hemani , Himanshu Jindal , Neha Rastogi , Hemant Virmani
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Wolfe-SBMC
- Main IPC: G06F3/12
- IPC: G06F3/12

Abstract:
Green printing is utilized to repurpose a document. An indication is received that a printout of a document from a printer has been requested. The document has content with a format that would result in a first quantity of pages being printed. The content is grouped into one or more regions. Further, one or more transformations are applied to the content for each region such that the printer prints the document with the content in a transformed format that results in a second quantity of pages being printed without falling below a predetermined readability threshold. The second quantity of pages is less than the first quantity of pages. Further, the one or more transformations being applied to the document may result in a second quantity of ink being utilized to print the document such that the second quantity of ink being less than the first quantity of ink.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120033237A1 GREEN PRINTING: RE-PURPOSING A DOCUMENT TO SAVE INK AND PAPER Public/Granted day:2012-02-09
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