Method for discovering power consumption in hardcopy output device by adding idle power consumption to outputting power consumption of hardcopy output device

摘要

The power consumption of a hardcopy output device is discovered. A page count value is gathered from the hardcopy output device. The page count value represents a number of hardcopy pages output by the hardcopy output device. The page count value is multiplied by a page power consumption value to approximate the outputting power consumption of the hardcopy output device.