Replenishment management system including image forming apparatus and server apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSHUICHI TETSUNO, SHUNSUKE MATSUSHITA, MIKIHIKO HAMADA
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSHUICHI TETSUNO, SHUNSUKE MATSUSHITA, MIKIHIKO HAMADA
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The present disclosure relates to a system including an image forming apparatus and a server apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a storage portion configured to store toner replenished from an attached toner container, a detection unit configured to detect a remaining amount of toner in the storage portion, and a notification unit configured to notify the server apparatus of information about the detected remaining amount of toner. In a case where a new toner container to be used for the image forming apparatus is delivered, the server apparatus determines whether the image forming apparatus has been appropriately replenished with toner based on a toner content of the toner container and the remaining amount of toner notified from the image forming apparatus after the toner container is delivered.
A replenishment management system comprising:
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