Failure prediction notification printer and printer management server, failure prediction notification system employing them, failure prediction notification program, and failure prediction notification method

A printer management server comprising:

• service situation acquisition means for acquiring information regarding a service situation of a printer;
• failure analysis means for analyzing a relation between the information regarding the service situation as acquired by said service situation acquisition means and a failure of said printer;
• failure prediction means for predicting an occurrence time of the failure of said printer and contents of the failure from the relation analyzed by said failure analysis means;
• and
• failure prediction notification means for notifying said printer of information regarding the occurrence time of the failure of said printer and the contents of the failure as predicted by said failure prediction means,
• wherein:
• said failure prediction notification means notifies the predictive information predicted by said failure prediction means after a reliability of the predictive information has reached a predetermined value.

A failure prediction notification system comprising:

• a printer;
• and
• a printer management server connected to said printer,
• wherein said printer receives failure prediction information including a failure time and failure contents from said printer management server, and
• wherein said printer management server acquires service situation information from said printer, analyzes a relation between said service situation information and printer failure information, generates said failure prediction information based on said relation, calculates a reliability of said failure prediction information, and sends said failure prediction information to said printer when said reliability is greater than a predetermined value.

A failure prediction notification method comprising:

• acquiring service situation information from a printer;
• analyzing a relation between said service situation information and printer failure information;
• generating failure prediction information based on said relation, said failure prediction information including a failure time and failure contents;
• calculating a reliability of said failure prediction information;
• and
• notifying said printer of said failure prediction information when said reliability is greater than a predetermined value.

A failure prediction notification system comprising:

• a printer;
• and
• a printer management server connected to said printer,
• wherein said printer receives failure prediction information and a method of avoiding printer failure from said printer management server, and
• wherein said printer management server acquires service situation information from said printer, generates at least one correlation value between said service situation information and printer failure information, generates said failure prediction information based on said at least one correlation value, and recommends said method of avoiding printer failure based on said at least one correlation value.