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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2020
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/16523 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16573 (2013.01);
Abstract
The first printing system SYincludes a printing apparatusincluding an ink container and a servercoupled to the printing apparatusvia a network NW, wherein the serveracquires maintenance information including residual ink amount information indicating an residual amount of ink in the ink container of the printing apparatus, determines whether a maintenance process is configured to be performed based on the acquired maintenance information, and instructs the printing apparatusto perform the maintenance process when it is determined that the maintenance process is configured to be performed.