US 11,235,584 B2Granted

Printing apparatus and printing system

AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation

InventorsYasuaki Hirai, Ryo Oguchi, Shunichi Hizawa, Shuichi Koganehira

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Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a liquid accommodation body into which liquid contained in a liquid container is configured to be poured, a printing section that performs printing by discharge of liquid supplied from the liquid accommodation body, a counting section that performs counting relating to an amount of consumption of liquid with which a liquid container was contained and counting relating to an amount of consumption of liquid per predetermined period of time, and a delivery request section that, based on a counting result yielded by the counting section, sends the server apparatus a delivery request for a liquid container by a time that is earlier by a delivery period of a liquid container than an estimated timing of completion of consumption of liquid with which a liquid container was contained.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A printing apparatus configured to communicate with a server apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising:

a liquid accommodation body into which liquid contained in a liquid container is configured to be poured;
a printing section that performs printing by discharge of the liquid supplied from the liquid accommodation body;
a counting section that performs counting relating to an amount of consumption of the liquid with which the liquid container was contained and counting relating to an amount of consumption of the liquid by the printing section per predetermined period of time;
and
a delivery request section that, based on a counting result yielded by the counting section, sends the server apparatus a delivery request for a liquid container by a time that is earlier only a delivery time of a liquid container than an estimated timing of completion of consumption of the liquid with which the liquid container was contained,
wherein upon authentication by the server apparatus of liquid container information relating to a new liquid container delivered, the counting section sets an initial value to a counted value relating to the amount of consumption of the liquid with which the liquid container was contained.

3 more elements

A printing system comprising:

a printing apparatus;
and
a server apparatus configured to communicate with the printing apparatus, wherein
the printing apparatus includes
a liquid accommodation body into which liquid contained in a liquid container is configured to be poured,
a printing section that performs printing by discharge of the liquid supplied from the liquid accommodation body,
a counting section that performs counting relating to an amount of consumption of the liquid with which the liquid container was contained and counting relating to an amount of consumption of the liquid by the printing section per predetermined period of time, and
a delivery request section that, based on a counting result yielded by the counting section, sends the server apparatus a delivery request for a liquid container by a time that is earlier only a delivery time of a liquid container than an estimated timing of completion of consumption of the liquid with which the liquid container was contained, and
upon authentication by the server apparatus of liquid container information relating to a new liquid container delivered, the counting section sets an initial value to a counted value relating to the amount of consumption of the liquid with which the liquid container was contained.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.