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Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2023
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Shigeki Fukushima, Matsumoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 2/175 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17569 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17589 (2013.01);
Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a control unit, wherein the control unit executes processing of updating a ink remaining amount information to an initial remaining amount and processing of updating a ink usage amount information to an initial usage amount when an input indicating that a ink storage unit is refilled with a ink is received, displays, on a display unit, a first ink indication indicating a usage state of the ink based on the ink remaining amount information and a second ink indication indicating the usage state of the ink based on the ink usage amount information, and switches an indication on the display unit from the first ink indication to the second ink indication or from the second ink indication to the first ink indication when an input instructing switching of the indication on the display unit is received.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Fukushima, Shigeki. (2025). Printing apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 12420558). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12420558

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