Printing device management device, printing device management method, printing device management program, printing device management system, and printing device

Abstract

An appropriate maintenance contract fee for maintenance work of a printing device is calculated. A printing device management device includes a maintenance information deriving unit that derives maintenance information related to an occurrence risk of a maintenance work of a printing device based on at least one of operation record information related to an operation record of the printing device, execution history information related to an execution history of a maintenance work of the printing device, ink information related to ink used in the printing device, media information related to a medium to be printed by the printing device, and installation environment information related to an installation environment of the printing device, an evaluation unit that derives an evaluation for a user of the printing device based on the maintenance information and at least one of a usage amount and a purchase amount of a consumable used in the printing device, and a fee calculation unit that calculates a maintenance contract fee for maintenance work of the printing device based on the derived evaluation of the user.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.