Patent ID: 8659771

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a plurality of print jobs for printing at the inkjet printer; adding the plurality of print jobs to a job queue; calculating a first cumulative amount of ink for use by the inkjet printer to print on media for all of the plurality of print jobs at once; calculating a second cumulative amount of ink for use to maintain the inkjet printer for printing the plurality of print jobs at once; calculating a cumulative page yield for printing all of the plurality of print jobs in the job queue at once by the inkjet printer based on the calculated first and second cumulative amounts of ink; determining whether the cumulative page yield is greater than or equal to a predetermined page yield threshold, wherein the predetermined page yield threshold is based on a predetermined ratio of ink for use by the inkjet printer for printing versus a predetermined amount of ink to maintain the inkjet printer; and upon the determining that the cumulative page yield is greater than or equal to the predetermined page yield threshold, directing the inkjet printer to print the plurality of print jobs at once.