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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2019
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Hong-Chul Choi, Seongnam-si, KR;
Yun-Su Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Seong-ho Jin, Seongnam-si, KR;
Jinwoo Noh, Seongnam-si, KR;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
An example operation method of an image forming apparatus includes determining a state of a toner refill operation of injecting toner from a toner reload kit (TRK) into a cartridge in the image forming apparatus, based on completion of injecting toner from the TRK into the cartridge, controlling the TRK to store information indicating a toner refill completion in a memory of the TRK and updating information of an amount of remaining toner of the cartridge based on an amount of the toner injected into the cartridge from the TRK.