percent of document that is printed vs paper

[cwswitch]

I'm looking for the percentage of the document with ink on it.

Imagine a large printed piece with only a small logo one corner.

Vs

A large document where nearly the whole area is printed.

The idea is some prediction of print time.

My only idea so far is to convert the document to an image and use imagemagik to give me some percentage of white vs colour.

Thanks for any ideas!

[rhd_ole]

You could create an action using the 'Gather Ink Information' and get the report as XML and log the DocumentINkInfo -> InkPrecenage pick the XML up and write the values as privatedata and use that for you analysis.

Alternatively you could create an action using the "check ink coverage (total page)", from there so you could set up thresholds to determine groups of print speeds.

[cwswitch]

That sounds great. I am not getting any suitable results with either though, unfortunately.

The goal is to know that 10% of the area is printed and 90% is unprinted.

Do these actions just tell me that ink is used/not or can I manipulate them to help me answer how much of the document is printed vs unprinted?

Thanks for the ideas

[cwswitch]

I think this is it, here viewtopic.php?p=14081&hilit=coverage#p14081

Thanks to Jimmy in that post!