Printing apparatus, system, and server system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuya Tanaka
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Abstract
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique capable of appropriately ordering an ink bottle. One embodiment of the present disclosure is a printing apparatus that includes: an ink tank that stores ink supplied from an ink bottle; and a head to which ink is supplied from the ink tank, and the printing apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit status information in which at least information relating to an ink remaining amount within the ink tank is included to a server and order processing of a new ink bottle is performed based on an ink consumption amount of the ink bottle.
Claims9
A system comprising:
- a printing apparatus;
- and
- a server system comprising one or more servers,
- wherein the printing apparatus comprises:
- (1) an ink tank that stores ink supplied from an ink bottle;
- (2) a head to which ink is supplied from the ink tank;
- (3) a detection unit configured to detect an ink remaining amount within the ink tank by using a sensor or by dot count;
- and (4) a transmission unit configured to transmit status information in which at least information relating to the ink remaining amount within the ink tank is included,
- wherein the server system comprises:
- (1) a reception unit configured to receive the status information;
- and (2) a first calculation unit configured to calculate an ink consumption amount of the ink bottle by using the status information, and
- wherein order processing of a new ink bottle is performed based on an ink consumption amount of the ink bottle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.