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US 6,285,835 B1Granted
Utilizing printer memory for automatic user messaging
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorsGustavo M. Guillemin, Alejandro Wiechers
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Abstract
A printing system provides consumer messages to users of the printing device by storing user message data in memory located in the printing device and displaying the user message upon the occurrence of a certain event. The user message data may either be an electronic representation of the user message, or it may be a pointer corresponding to an external memory location that contains the electronic representation of the user message.
Claims10
In a printing device having memory integrated therein, a method comprising:
- detecting when a replaceable component is installed into the printing device;
- displaying a consumer message derived from message data in the memory to a user of the printing device;
- and
- wherein the message data comprises a pointer that references an electronic representation of the consumer message stored external to the printing device.
1 more element
A printing system, comprising:
- a printing device having memory with consumer data stored therein;
- a user interface;
- and
- a processor configured to display a consumer message derived from the consumer data in response to installation of a replaceable component into the printing device,
- wherein the consumer data comprises a pointer that references an electronic representation of the consumer message stored external to the printing device.
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A laser printer, comprising:
- memory with consumer message data stored therein;
- an installable toner cartridge;
- a processor configured to display a consumer message derived from the message data in response to the toner cartridge being installed in the laser printer;
- and
- wherein the consumer message data comprises a pointer corresponding to an external memory location, the external memory location storing an electronic representation of the consumer message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.