CN111061440B - Method for accurately measuring toner consumption, control system and laser printer - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for accurately measuring toner consumption, a control system and a laser printer, and belongs to the technical field of laser printers. A method of accurately metering toner consumption, comprising the steps of: step S1, calculating the consumption of the toner required for printing 100% of a piece of paper covered by the paper, and storing the consumption as a standard consumption p of the toner; step S2, obtaining the content to be printed, and calculating the area percentage of the area to be covered by the toner in each content to be printed to the whole paper surface; step S3, multiplying the calculated percentage in the step S2 by the standard toner consumption stored in the step S1 to obtain the toner consumption P of each surface of the content to be printed; step S4, accumulating the toner consumption of each piece of content to be printed to obtain the total toner consumption Sigma P of the printing. The invention solves the problems of inaccurate toner metering, large waste and environmental pollution in the selenium drum of the laser printer.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to a method for accurately measuring toner consumption, a control system and a laser printer, and belongs to the technical field of laser printers.
Background
The laser printer is a non-impact output device combining a laser scanning technology and an electronic imaging technology, and the working principle of the laser printer basically comprises the following steps: the process of charging, exposing, developing, transferring, eliminating electricity, cleaning and fixing is seven, wherein the powdered toner (also called carbon powder) is the powdered substance for imaging and fixing on paper in the laser printer, and is mainly stored in an ink box of the selenium drum, when the toner is consumed quickly, the printed content can fade to influence the user experience, so that the consumption of the toner needs to be measured, and the user is prompted to supplement or replace the toner before the toner is consumed.
At present, the metering of the toner by the laser printer is generally realized by calculating the printing times, but in practice, the content in each printing operation is different, only a few sheets of paper are provided with a few lines, and a few sheets of paper are printed with dense hemp, so that the consumed toner is different, and the consumed toner is of course, so that the consumed toner can only be relaxed by the metering method in order to avoid the consumption of the toner before the user replaces the toner, and more toner is not consumed when the toner is replaced, so that the office expenditure of the user is increased, and the consumed toner also pollutes the environment.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for accurately measuring toner consumption, a control system and a laser printer, so as to solve the problems of inaccurate toner measurement, large waste and environmental pollution in a selenium drum of the laser printer.
The technical proposal is as follows:
a method of accurately metering toner consumption, comprising the steps of:
step S1, calculating the consumption of the toner required for printing 100% of a piece of paper covered by the paper, and storing the consumption as a standard consumption p of the toner;
step S2, obtaining the content to be printed, and calculating the area percentage of the area to be covered by the toner in each content to be printed to the whole paper surface;
step S3, multiplying the calculated percentage in the step S2 by the standard toner consumption stored in the step S1 to obtain the toner consumption P of each surface of the content to be printed;
step S4, accumulating the toner consumption of each piece of content to be printed to obtain the total toner consumption Sigma P of the printing.
Further, in step S1, different standard toner consumption amounts of different size sheets at different printing accuracies are calculated, respectively, and stored as p1, p2, p3 … … pn; in step S3, the toner consumption amounts P1, P2, P3 … … Pn of each piece of content to be printed are calculated; in step S4, the total toner consumption Σp1, Σp2, Σp3 … … Σpn of the printing is obtained.
Further, in step S2, image recognition is performed when the laser printer driver performs image printing and/or preprocessing to obtain content to be printed on one side.
A control system for accurately measuring toner consumption comprises a power supply driving plate, a processing chip, a memory and a measuring chip; the metering chip is arranged in the selenium drum, the power supply driving plate, the processing chip and the memory are arranged on the control circuit board, and the processing chip is electrically connected with the memory and the metering chip; the power supply driving board is connected with the mains supply and supplies the power supply to the processing chip, the memory and the metering chip after the power supply driving board is lifted/lowered, various instructions for driving the processing chip and standard toner consumption are stored in the memory, the processing chip reads the memory and sequentially executes the instructions from the step S1 to the step S4, and then the printing times and the total toner consumption of each printing are stored in the metering chip.
Further, the printing device also comprises an operation panel and a network communication interface, wherein the operation panel and the network communication interface are electrically connected with the processing chip, the operation panel is powered by the power supply driving board, and the network communication interface is connected with a wired or wireless network and then can transmit data of printing times and total toner consumption to other terminal equipment through the network.
Furthermore, the operation panel is a liquid crystal touch operation screen, and can directly display the data in the metering chip.
A laser printer capable of accurately measuring toner consumption comprises a selenium drum, a paper box, a paper feeding system, a laser scanning system, an imaging developing system and a control system; the control system is the control system for accurately measuring the consumption of the toner, and the control system controls the paper feeding system to finish printing and imaging of paper in the paper box through the laser scanning system and the imaging and developing system, accurately measures the consumption of the toner and stores data into the metering chip in the selenium drum.
The beneficial effects are that:
1. the invention calculates the area covered by the toner and the toner consumption of the pre-calculated full paper area in the printed content, thereby more accurately measuring the toner consumption and avoiding the toner waste and environmental pollution.
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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method of accurately metering toner consumption;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a control system for accurately metering toner consumption;
wherein: the control circuit board 1, the processing chip 11, the power supply driving board 12, the memory 13, the metering chip 14, the operation panel 15, the network communication interface 16, the selenium drum 2 and the commercial power 3.
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The invention is described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings and the specific embodiments:
a method of accurately metering toner consumption as shown in fig. 1, a method of accurately metering toner consumption comprising the steps of:
step S1, calculating the consumption of the toner required for printing 100% of a piece of paper covered by the paper, and storing the consumption as a standard consumption p of the toner;
step S2, obtaining the content to be printed, and calculating the area percentage of the area to be covered by the toner in each content to be printed to the whole paper surface;
step S3, multiplying the calculated percentage in the step S2 by the standard toner consumption stored in the step S1 to obtain the toner consumption P of each surface of the content to be printed;
step S4, accumulating the toner consumption of each piece of content to be printed to obtain the total toner consumption Sigma P of the printing.
Further, in step S1, different standard toner consumption amounts of different size sheets at different printing accuracies are calculated, respectively, and stored as p1, p2, p3 … … pn; in step S3, the toner consumption amounts P1, P2, P3 … … Pn of each piece of content to be printed are calculated; in step S4, the total toner consumption Σp1, Σp2, Σp3 … … Σpn of the printing is obtained.
Further, in step S2, image recognition is performed when the laser printer driver performs image printing and/or preprocessing to obtain content to be printed on one side.
A control system for accurately measuring toner consumption comprises a power supply driving plate 12, a processing chip 11, a memory 13 and a measuring chip 14; the metering chip 14 is arranged in the selenium drum 2, the power supply driving plate 12, the processing chip 11 and the memory 13 are arranged on the control circuit board 1, and the processing chip 11 is electrically connected with the memory 13 and the metering chip 14; the power driving board 12 is connected to the commercial power 3 and supplies the commercial power to the processing chip 11, the memory 13 and the metering chip 14 after lifting/lowering the commercial power, each instruction for driving the processing chip and the standard toner consumption are stored in the memory 13, the processing chip 11 reads the memory 13 and sequentially executes the instructions from step S1 to step S4 in the method for precisely metering the toner consumption according to one of claims 1 to 3, and then the printing times and the total toner consumption of each printing are stored in the metering chip 14.
The control system further comprises an operation panel 15 and a network communication interface 16, wherein the operation panel 15 and the network communication interface 16 are electrically connected with the processing chip, the operation panel 15 is powered by the power driving board 12, and the network communication interface 16 is connected with a wired or wireless network and then can transmit data of printing times and total toner consumption to other terminal equipment through the network.
The operation panel 15 is a liquid crystal touch type operation panel, and can directly display data in the metering chip.
A laser printer capable of accurately measuring toner consumption comprises a selenium drum, a paper box, a paper feeding system, a laser scanning system, an imaging developing system and a control system; the control system is the control system for accurately measuring the consumption of the toner, and the control system controls the paper feeding system to finish printing and imaging of paper in the paper box through the laser scanning system and the imaging and developing system, accurately measures the consumption of the toner and stores data into the metering chip in the selenium drum.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiment of the invention is not intended to be limiting, but rather is intended to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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1. A method of accurately metering toner consumption, characterized by: the method comprises the following steps:
step S1, calculating the consumption of the toner required for printing 100% of a piece of paper covered by the paper, and storing the consumption as a standard consumption p of the toner;
step S2, performing image recognition when a laser printer driver performs image printing and/or preprocessing to obtain single-sided to-be-printed content, and then calculating the percentage of the area, which needs to be covered by the toner, in each to-be-printed content to the whole paper surface;
step S3, multiplying the calculated percentage in the step S2 by the standard toner consumption stored in the step S1 to obtain the toner consumption P of each surface of the content to be printed;
step S4, accumulating the toner consumption of each piece of content to be printed to obtain the total toner consumption Sigma P of the printing.
2. The method of accurately metering toner consumption of claim 1, wherein: in the step S1, respectively calculating different standard toner consumption amounts of different sizes of paper under different printing precision, and storing the standard toner consumption amounts as p1, p2 and p3 … … pn; in step S3, the toner consumption amounts P1, P2, P3 … … Pn of each piece of content to be printed are calculated; in step S4, the total toner consumption Σp1, Σp2, Σp3 … … Σpn of the printing is obtained.
3. A control system for accurately metering toner consumption, characterized by: the device comprises a power supply driving board (12), a processing chip (11), a memory (13) and a metering chip (14); the metering chip (14) is arranged in the selenium drum (2), the power supply driving plate (12), the processing chip (11) and the memory (13) are arranged on the control circuit board (1), and the processing chip (11) is electrically connected with the memory (13) and the metering chip (14); the power supply driving board (12) is connected to the commercial power (3) and is used for the processing chip (11), the memory (13) and the metering chip (14) after being lifted/lowered, various instructions for driving the processing chip and standard toner consumption are stored in the memory (13), the processing chip (11) reads the memory (13) and sequentially executes the instructions from step S1 to step S4 in the method for precisely metering toner consumption according to one of claims 1 to 2, and then the printing times and the total toner consumption of each printing are stored in the metering chip (14).
4. The control system for accurately metering toner consumption of claim 3, wherein: the control system further comprises an operation panel (15) and a network communication interface (16), wherein the operation panel (15) and the network communication interface (16) are electrically connected with the processing chip, the operation panel (15) is powered by the power driving board (12), and the network communication interface (16) can transmit data of printing times and total toner consumption to other terminal equipment through a network after being connected with a wired or wireless network.
5. The control system for accurately metering toner consumption of claim 4, wherein: the operation panel (15) is a liquid crystal touch operation screen, and can directly display data in the metering chip.
6. A laser printer capable of accurately measuring toner consumption comprises a selenium drum, a paper box, a paper feeding system, a laser scanning system, an imaging developing system and a control system; the control system is a control system for accurately measuring the consumption of the toner according to any one of claims 3 to 5, and controls the paper feeding system to complete printing and imaging of paper in the paper box through the laser scanning system and the imaging and developing system, and the control system accurately measures the consumption of the toner and stores data into a metering chip in the selenium drum.
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