Patent ID: 8144936

Claim:
A method for performing print quality assessment of an output document in real-time during manufacture of the output document by a document manufacturing device, the method comprising steps of: receiving data representative of an input document upon which pre-print data is applied; applying, by way of a printing device, printing onto the input document based on print file instructions to produce the output document; acquiring image data representative of the output document containing both the pre-print data and the printing applied thereon; comparing: the received data representative of the input document and the print file instructions used to produce the output document with the acquired image data representative of the output document to extract a representation of the printing by way of print item processing; determining whether or not there is any difference between the representation of the printing, the data representative of the input document and the print file instructions; and rendering a print quality assessment based on results of the determining step to affect subsequent processing of the output document, wherein the rendering step includes providing a sufficient print quality notification following a determination that the representation of the printing matches the print file instructions and the data representative of the input document.