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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2004
Applicant:
Kazunobu Nimura, Nagano-ken, JP;
Inventor:
Kazunobu Nimura, Nagano-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/393 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A printing system for performing a printing operation by using a black recording agent and color recording agents, includes: a detecting unit that detects a remaining amount of each of the recording agents; and a printing unit that prints, when the remaining amount of the black recording agents reaches a first threshold value for warning a user against that the remaining mount of the black recording agent is decrease while an printing operation can be carried out in the printing system, data to be printed by using the color recording agents.