公开(公告)号：US20170046104A1

公开(公告)日：2017-02-16

申请号：US15340793

申请日：2016-11-01

Applicant: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.

Inventor： Lambertus A.H. VAN VONDEREN ,  Martinus G.M. LANGE ,  Jeroen ROOD ,  Mark M.R. CORNETH ,  Elsemieke P.A. VAN ROSSUM

IPC: G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/121 ,  B41J2/165 ,  B41J2/17566 ,  B41J2002/16573 ,  B41J2002/17589 ,  G03G15/553 ,  G06F3/1229 ,  G06F3/1235 ,  G06F3/1256 ,  G06F3/126 ,  G06F3/1282 ,  G06F3/1296 ,  G06Q10/087

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for predicting consumption of supply material for a plurality of print jobs in a printing system, each print job intended to consume supply material from at least one supply material container from a plurality of supply material containers in the printing system, the method comprising the steps of scheduling the plurality of print jobs in time, scheduling maintenance actions in time, for each supply material container establishing a supply material level in the supply material container before printing the plurality of print jobs, for each supply material container calculating a job consumption of supply material from the supply material container for each scheduled print job, for each supply material container calculating a maintenance consumption of supply material from the supply material container for each scheduled maintenance action, and for each supply material container calculating at which print job the supply material level of the supply material container reaches a zero supply material level in the supply material container taking into account the calculated job consumption of the supply material in the supply material container and taking into account the calculated maintenance consumption of the supply material in the supply material container. The invention also relates to a print system suitable for applying the method.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及一种用于预测打印系统中的多个打印作业的供给材料的消耗的方法，每个打印作业旨在从打印系统中的多个供应材料容器中消耗来自至少一个供应材料容器的供应材料， 所述方法包括以下步骤：及时调度所述多个打印作业，对于每个供应材料容器在打印所述多个打印作业之前，为每个供应材料容器在供应材料容器中建立供应材料级别，及时调度维护动作， 对于每个预定的打印作业，从每个预定打印作业的供料材料容器中的供料的作业消耗量，对于每个供料材料容器从每个预定维护动作的供料容器计算供料的维护消耗量， 为供应伙伴提供供应物料的水平 考虑到供给材料容器中的供给材料的计算的作业消耗，并且考虑到供给材料容器中的供给材料的计算的维护消耗量，容器在供应材料容器中达到零供给材料水平。 本发明还涉及适用于该方法的打印系统。