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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2013
Yoshiya Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Igarashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
Yuka Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshio Kitazawa, Chiba, JP;
Yoshiya Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Igarashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
Yuka Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshio Kitazawa, Chiba, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus that uses plural kinds of consumable items different from each other, the apparatus including a consumption status detecting device to detect a respective consumption status for each of the plural kinds of the consumable items, a memory to store a plurality of settings for each of the plural kinds of the consumable items, each of the settings including presence or non-presence of information output, and an output device to output the consumption status detected by the consumption status detecting unit, according to the setting of the presence or the non-presence of information output stored in the memory.