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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
May. 13, 2004
Naruhide Kitada, Nagano-ken, JP;
Mikio Aoki, Suwa, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A method is provided to notify a printer user of a predicted result of a failure without employing dedicated display means. According to the method, information regarding the service situation of a printer P is acquired, the relation between the acquired service situation and a failure is analyzed, the occurrence time, etc. of the failure of the printer P are predicted from the relation, and the result of the prediction is notified to the printer P so as to print the predicted result by employing the print function of the, printer P itself. Thus, the occurrence time, contents, etc. of the failure can be reliably notified to a printer user without employing dedicated display means.