Seiko Epson Corporation

Takefumi Inui

Yuki Kuwahara

Shuichi Koganehira

Keiichi Taguchi

Kenji Matsumoto

Tomohiko Sano

Shigeru Tsuji

The invention relates to a method of charging for ink in an ink container consumed by a printing unit during printing. The method of charging includes obtaining information on an amount of the ink consumed; and implementing charging on the basis of the information. Before the amount of the ink in the ink container consumed reaches a predetermined value, first charging is implemented according to a charging basis in which usage-based charging is implemented on the basis of the amount of the ink consumed. After the amount of the ink consumed reaches the predetermined value, second charging is implemented according to a charging basis different from the charging basis applied to the first charging.

Charging method and charging system

An information processing device includes an ink distribution amount computation unit that computes an i-th (where i is an integer greater than or equal to one) ink distribution amount distributed to an i-th recording job which is performed by a recording apparatus according to an i-th ink distribution ratio obtained from division of an i-th total consumption amount cumulative total by an i-th recording consumption amount cumulative total.

Information processing device and program

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Matsumoto, Japan

Takefumi Inui