Patent ID: 8705119

Claim:
A method for monitoring critical color quality for a printing system comprising: selecting a print job; allowing a user to interact with specific areas of the print job and to select one or more critical colors from within the print job to monitor during a print run; printing the print job including one or more pages with one or more of the critical colors printed thereon; automatically measuring the one or more printed critical colors to determine the actual color or colors printed; and executing specific system action in response to the measuring; determining target color values for each of the one or more critical colors; comparing each measured printed critical color to the target color value of the critical color; and determining whether the difference between each measured printed critical color and the target color value of the critical color is within a predefined threshold value; executing specific action in response to said measurement, wherein the specific action comprises one or more of: alerting the user, shutting down the printing system, or automatically invoking corrective action; wherein the critical colors are originally in the print job.