Estimating toner usage with laser electrophotographic printers

Lu Wang; Dennis Abramsohn; Thom Ives; Mark Shaw; Jan Allebach

doi:10.1117/12.2008504

4 February 2013 Estimating toner usage with laser electrophotographic printers

Lu Wang, Dennis Abramsohn, Thom Ives, Mark Shaw, Jan Allebach

Proceedings Volume 8652, Color Imaging XVIII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 86520P (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2008504
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

Accurate estimation of toner usage is an area of on-going importance for laser, electrophotographic (EP) printers. We propose a new two-stage approach in which we first predict on a pixel-by-pixel basis, the absorptance from printed and scanned pages. We then form a weighted sum of these pixel values to predict overall toner usage on the printed page. The weights are chosen by least-squares regression to toner usage measured with a set of printed test pages. Our twostage predictor significantly outperforms existing methods that are based on a simple pixel counting strategy in terms of both accuracy and robustness of the predictions.

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Lu Wang, Dennis Abramsohn, Thom Ives, Mark Shaw, and Jan Allebach "Estimating toner usage with laser electrophotographic printers", Proc. SPIE 8652, Color Imaging XVIII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 86520P (4 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2008504

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