Toner refill guide based on the possibility toner refill quantity in the plurality of image forming apparatuses
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorTae Hee Won
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Abstract
An example user terminal apparatus includes a display, a communication apparatus to communicate with an external apparatus, and a processor to, based on information on a possible first toner refill quantity of a plurality of grouped image forming apparatuses provided from the external apparatus through the communication apparatus and a toner quantity of one toner refill apparatus, control the display to display a guide message including information on the time point of toner refill, each of the image forming apparatuses which is a subject of toner refill within the group, and a possible second toner refill quantity of each of the image forming apparatuses at the time point of toner refill.
Claims15
A method, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a communication apparatus of a user terminal, information on a possible first toner refill quantity of a plurality of grouped image forming apparatuses and a toner quantity of one toner refill apparatus from an external apparatus;
- in response to receiving the information, controlling, by a processor of the user terminal, a display to display a guide message including information on:
- a time point of toner refill of the plurality of grouped image forming apparatuses;
- each of the image forming apparatuses which is a subject of toner refill within the group;
- and
- a possible second toner refill quantity of each of the image forming apparatuses at the time point of toner refill.
A method of managing an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- identifying a possible first toner refill quantity of a plurality of grouped image forming apparatuses;
- identifying a possibility of toner refill for each of the image forming apparatuses which are subjects of toner refill within the group based on the identified possible first toner refill quantity of the plurality of image forming apparatuses and a toner quantity of one toner refill apparatus;
- and
- providing a guide message, in response to identifying the possibility of toner refill for each of the image forming apparatuses which are subjects of toner refill within the group, including information on a time point of toner refill of the plurality of grouped image forming apparatuses, each of the image forming apparatuses which is a subject of toner refill within the group, and a possible second toner refill quantity of each of the image forming apparatuses at the time point of toner refill based on the identified possibility of toner refill.
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having a program executing a management method of an image forming apparatus recorded thereon, the non-transitory computer readable recording medium comprising:
- instructions to identify a possible first toner refill quantity of a plurality of grouped image forming apparatuses;
- instructions to identify a possibility of toner refill for each of the image forming apparatuses which are subjects of toner refill within the group based on the identified possible first toner refill quantity of the plurality of image forming apparatuses and a toner quantity of one toner refill apparatus;
- and
- instructions to provide a guide message including information on a time point of toner refill of the plurality of grouped image forming apparatuses, each of the image forming apparatuses which is a subject of toner refill within the group, and a possible second toner refill quantity of each of the image forming apparatuses at the time point of toner refill based on the identified possibility of toner refill.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.