Patent attributes
The present invention includes as one embodiment a method for ascertaining resource requirements of a print job sent to a printer via a print driver. The method includes creating a document of the print job with the print driver and reading the print job into memory directly from the print driver, sampling a task requiring a consumable resource to provide a sample by overlaying a sample window over a portion of the document and providing low resolution level analysis data with respect to resource requirements of the task, analyzing the sample window and low resolution level analysis of the task with respect to resource requirements thereof and providing task sample requirement data in response thereto and ascertaining the resource requirements of the task based on the task sample requirement data.
