Image forming device and warning method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi TOMIYAMA
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Abstract
An image forming device includes a wireless tag communication device and a controller. The wireless tag communication device is configured to acquire identification information to identify a wireless tag from the wireless tag provided in a sheet. The controller is configured to acquire dispensing information required to write to the wireless tag and perform a warning process by using the acquired dispensing information and the acquired identification information, upon the dispensing condition not being satisfied.
Claims20
An image forming device comprising:
- a wireless tag communicator, including an antenna, configured to acquire identification information to identify a wireless tag provided in a sheet, the wireless tag communicator in contact with an outside surface of a cover of the image forming device;
- and
- a controller, including a processor, configured to:
- acquire dispensing information required to write to the wireless tag,
- determine whether a dispensing condition to permit dispensing is met based on the dispensing information and the acquired identification information, and
- if the dispensing condition is not satisfied, provide a warning.
A warning method for an image forming device, the method comprising:
- acquiring, via a wireless tag communicator contacting an outside surface of a cover of the image forming device, identification information to identify a wireless tag provided in a sheet, the wireless tag communicator including an antenna;
- and
- acquiring dispensing information required to write to the wireless tag,
- wherein upon a dispensing condition not being satisfied, provide a warning process using the acquired dispensing information and the acquired identification information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.