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Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

May. 22, 2015
Applicant:

Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Satoshi Ohtaka, Ibaraki, JP;

Tomoki Matsumura, Ibaraki, JP;

Naoto Tajima, Ibaraki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/393 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04548 (2013.01); B41J 2/01 (2013.01); B41J 2/17503 (2013.01); B41J 2/17546 (2013.01); B41J 29/393 (2013.01);
Abstract

A printer includes an expendable supply, a detector that detects at least one of a power-on operation, a resume from an energy-saving mode and a new installation of an expendable supply, a determiner that determines whether or not a recommended limit of the expendable supply has passed, a warning generator that generates a warning for notifying that a usable limit of the expendable supply will come soon if the recommended limit has already passed, and a memory storage that stores a warning cycle and a last warning generation. When the recommended limit has passed and the power-on operation, the resume or the new installation is detected, the warning generator generates a warning [1] when the last warning generation is not stored in the memory storage, or [2] when the last warning generation is stored in the memory storage and the warning cycle has elapsed from the last warning generation.


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