Patent ID: 8755080

Claim:
A method of adjusting a level of liquid to be deposited on a print media comprising: providing an image processing system; providing image data for a page of a print job to the image processing system; providing information regarding a printing system to be used to deposit the liquid on the print media during a printing operation to the image processing system; converting the image data for the page of the print job into a bitmap appropriate for analysis of risk of excessive inking related print defects using the image processing system; analyzing the bitmap for the page of the print job using a risk estimator to determine an overall risk score for the page; determining whether the overall risk score for the page of the print job is acceptable or unacceptable; releasing the bitmap of the page of the print job for printing when the overall risk score is acceptable; and modifying the image data for the page of the print job when the overall risk score is unacceptable.