Patent ID: 9237245
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: B41J,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An environmental contribution supporting apparatus provided for a system including a printing apparatus and an erasing apparatus that decolors an image formed on a recording medium with a decolorable coloring agent, the environmental contribution supporting apparatus comprising: a sheet-reduction-ratio calculating unit configured to calculate a sheet reduction ratio from a number of reduced sheets by a duplex printing and an aggregation printing and a number of printed surfaces in all printing jobs executed in a predetermined period; a sheet-reuse-ratio calculating unit configured to acquire a number of reused sheets successfully decolored in a single decoloring job of the erasing apparatus and calculate a sheet reuse ratio from the number of reused sheets in the decloring job in the predetermined period and a number of printed sheets in the predetermined period; and a ecological report creating unit configured to display results calculated by the sheet-reduction-ratio calculating unit and the sheet-reuse-ratio calculating unit on a same screen.