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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2001
Nobuo Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Seiichi Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Okuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A supply such as an ink tank or the like, which is mounted on an image recording apparatus, includes a recording section in which encoded information created by encoding identification information by a secret key is recorded, and the encoded information is decoded by a decoding key provided with the image recording apparatus and then checked. With this arrangement, it can be advantageously prevented that the supply such as the ink tank or the like is mounted on the image recording apparatus by mistake, whereby the deterioration of image quality, the trouble of the image recording apparatus and the like caused by the supply mounted by mistake can be prevented.