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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2016
Applicant:
S-printing Solution Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Jae-yoon Lee, Seongnam-si, KR;
Hong-rok Woo, Yongin-si, KR;
Assignee:
S-Printing Solution Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00323 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); H04N 1/0009 (2013.01); H04N 1/00034 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus and an operating method thereof are provided. The image forming apparatus uses supplied mounted therein, and includes at least one computer processor configured to determine a grade of the image forming apparatus based on an accumulated usage of the supplies, and determine a range of available grades of the supplies, based on the determined grade of the image forming apparatus, and a memory configured to store information about the grade of the image forming apparatus.