Image forming apparatus, failure information notification system and failure information notification method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshifumi Mimura
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a storage medium which stores manufacture information to a consumable supply; a reading unit which reads information in the storage medium; a communication control unit which receives failure information of the consumable supply; a display unit which displays information; and a control unit which receives the failure information of the consumable supply by the communication control unit, then determines whether a consumable supply in use is equivalent to a failed consumable supply or not, and performs control to display the failure information on the display unit when the consumable supply is determined as equivalent to the failed consumable supply.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a storage medium stores manufacture information proper to a consumable supply;
- a reading unit reads information in the storage medium;
- a communication control unit receives failure information of the consumable supply;
- a display unit displays information;
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- a control unit receives the failure information of the consumable supply by the communication control unit, which includes a content that a failure may occur in the consumable supply with the manufacture information proper to the consumable supply, then determines whether a consumable supply in use is equivalent to a failed consumable supply or not based on the manufacture information included in the failure information and the read manufacture information from the storage medium, and performs control to display the failure information on the display unit if the consumable supply is determined as equivalent to the failed consumable supply.
A consumable supply failure information notification method in a device using a consumable supply comprising a storage medium which stores manufacture information to the consumable supply, the method comprising:
- receiving failure information of the consumable supply, which includes a content that a failure may occur in the consumable supply with the manufacture information proper to the consumable supply;
- reading out the manufacture information from the storage medium;
- determining whether a consumable supply in use is equivalent to a failed consumable supply or not according to the manufacture information included in the failure information and the manufacture information read out from the storage medium, based on the received failure information;
- and
- displaying the failure information when the consumable supply is determined as equivalent to the failed consumable supply.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.