Image forming apparatus capable of determining whether enough ink remains
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorTakuya FUKATA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus 1 capable of loading a plurality of ink containers 31 containing ink of the same color includes: a plurality of container loaders 32 capable of removably loading the respective ink containers 31; a total remaining amount calculator 101 that calculates a total remaining amount of ink of the same color based on respective remaining amounts of ink in the ink containers 31 loaded in the container loaders 32; and a remaining amount condition determiner 102 that determines whether or not a remaining amount alert condition has occurred in which the total remaining amount of ink has reduced to a predetermined lower limit.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium using a recording agent;
- a plurality of container loaders capable of removably loading respective recording agent containers each containing a recording agent of the same color;
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- a control device that includes a processor and functions, through the processor executing a control program, as:
- (a) a remaining amount detector that detects a remaining amount of recording agent in each of the recording agent containers loaded in the container loaders;
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- (b) a remaining amount condition determiner that determines, based on the remaining amount of recording agent in each of the recording agent containers detected by the remaining amount detector, whether or not a remaining amount alert condition has occurred in which the remaining amount of recording agent in one of the recording agent containers loaded in the container loaders or a total remaining amount of recording agent of the same color has reduced to a predetermined lower limit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.