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Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2021
Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;

Inventor:

Yuka Hattori, Mizuho, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1229 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01);
Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a holder configured to hold an expendable supply attached thereto, a print engine configured to perform printing using the supply, a display configured to display information regarding the supply, and a controller configured to determine whether a supply-consumed status amount of the supply attached to the holder has reached a first threshold, the supply-consumed status amount representing how much the supply is consumed, and when determining that the supply-consumed status amount of the supply attached to the holder has reached the first threshold, cause the display to show supply-related information related to a contract concluded on the supply used for the printing.


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