Patent ID: 8767259

Claim:
A method, comprising: initially establishing a plurality of image quality threshold standards; predetermining and assigning an image quality threshold standard from the plurality of image quality threshold standards to an associated image job; comparing the assigned image quality threshold standard of each associated image job to a quality system check value; wherein the quality system check value is an inline image quality measurement; alerting an operator to a status of the comparing the assigned image quality threshold standard of each associated image job to the quality system check value; wherein the status includes a first print marking if the quality system check value is greater than or equal to the assigned image quality threshold standard; wherein the status includes at least a second print marking if the quality system check value is less than the assigned image quality threshold standard and greater than or equal to a predetermined deviation from the assigned image quality threshold standard; wherein the status includes a third print marking if the quality system check value is less than the predetermined deviation from the assigned image quality threshold standard; and, wherein the predetermined deviation is one standard deviation from the assigned image quality threshold standard.