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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Taniguchi, Mishima, JP;
Wataru Uchida, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Yamazaki, Mishima, JP;
Toshifumi Kitamura, Numazu, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To notify a residual life of a replaceable part at appropriate time on image quality required by the user. An image forming apparatus including: a replaceable part used for image formation; an output unit configured to output information indicating that a usage amount has reached a threshold; an input unit configured to input information; and a control unit configured to change the threshold in accordance with information about image quality input by the input unit.
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