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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Izumi Fujiwara, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a printing apparatus, an ink tank holds ink to be supplied to a print head. Ink can be replenished in the ink tank by a plurality of types of ink bottles of different ink capacities for the same color of ink. A management unit manages information for an ink consumption amount, which is an amount of ink consumed in the ink tank. An updating unit updates the information for the ink consumption amount based on an ink capacity corresponding to an ink bottle used to replenish ink among the plurality of types of ink bottles.
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