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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakahiro Sakamoto
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A printing apparatus management server manages a plurality of printing apparatuses, obtains, in response to a request from a voice device management server, information of a predetermined printing apparatus registered, from the plurality of printing apparatuses, as a printing apparatus to be used in the printing apparatus management server, transmits, to the voice device management server, the obtained information of the predetermined printing apparatus, obtains remaining amount information transmitted from the predetermined printing apparatus, and transmits the obtained remaining amount information to the consumable item management server. Voice notification to a user is performed, via a voice device configured to communicate with the voice device management server, based on the obtained remaining amount information, and processing for placing an order for the consumable item is performed based on a voice instruction from the user accepted by the voice device.
A system that includes a printing apparatus and at least one server which can communicate with a voice device management server which manages a voice device,
A method of controlling a printing apparatus and at least one server which can communicate with a voice device management server which manages a voice device,
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for controlling a printing apparatus and at least one server which can communicate with a voice device management server which manages a voice device, to
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