Patent ID: 9020373
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An environmental load display processing device for providing an indication, on a display, of a degree of load put on environment resulting from production of a printed matter, the device comprising: a first probability calculating portion configured to calculate a first probability that a paper jam of first paper having a first attribute occurs in a printing unit; a second probability calculating portion configured to calculate a second probability that a paper jam of second paper having a second attribute occurs in the printing unit; a first load value calculating portion configured to calculate, as a first production environmental load value, a value including a first printing environmental load value and a product of the first probability and a first re-printing environmental load value, the first printing environmental load value representing a degree of load put on the environment resulting from printing onto the first paper, and the first re-printing environmental load value representing a degree of load put on the environment until the printing unit has conducted printing onto another first paper since a paper jam was cleared; a second load value calculating portion configured to calculate, as a second production environmental load value, a value including a second printing environmental load value and a product of the second probability and a second re-printing environmental load value, the second printing environmental load value representing a degree of load put on the environment resulting from printing onto the second paper, and the second re-printing environmental load value representing a degree of load put on the environment until the printing unit has conducted printing onto another second paper since the paper jam was cleared; and a load display processing portion configured to display, when the first paper is selected as paper to be used for producing the printed matter, the first production environmental load value on the display, and to display, when the second paper is selected as paper to be used for producing the printed matter, the second production environmental load value on the display.