Seiko Epson Corporation

Tokio Kato

Ryo Oguchi

Yasuaki Hirai

Tomoyoshi Hirabayashi

Tomoya Kurashina

A printing apparatus includes a setting section setting a reference value that satisfies an execution condition of a periodic maintenance; and a counting section counting a count value from a previous maintenance. A maintenance section performs the periodic maintenance when the count value of the counting section reaches the reference value. In a case where a user maintenance is performed by the maintenance section according to an instruction of a user, when the count value counted up to the user maintenance is a lower limit value or more, the setting section sets the reference value that is a value corresponding to the count value and is the lower limit value or more, while when the count value counted up to the user maintenance is less than the lower limit value, the setting section sets the lower limit value as the reference value.

Printing apparatus and printing system

A server apparatus includes a receiving section that receives first apparatus information and associated information in association with each other, a storage section that stores second apparatus information and user information in association with each other, a control section that determines an execution condition based on the associated information received by the receiving section, and a transmitting section that transmits, to a printing apparatus, the execution condition determined by the control section. The control section causes the execution condition thus determined and the user information associated with the second apparatus information that matches the first apparatus information to be stored in the storage section in association with each other. The transmitting section transmits, to the printing apparatus having the first apparatus information that matches the second apparatus information associated with the user information, the execution condition associated with the user information.

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Tokio Kato