Consumable item supplying system for an image forming apparatus

Details Consumable item supplying system for an image forming apparatus Consumable item supplying system for an image forming apparatus

1998-06-10

2000-02-08

Pendegrass, Joan

Electrophotography

Remote monitoring

399 24, 399 81, G03G 2100, G03G 1500

Patent

active

060235934

ABSTRACT:
A consumable item supplying system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses each using a plurality of consumable items, for example, copysheets, toner, and so on. The consumable item supplying system includes a consumable item manual requesting operation for manually requesting a consumable item from each of the image forming apparatuses. A central controller orders a consumable item from a consumable item supplier or the like when the consumable item is requested from one of the image forming apparatuses, and a data communication device can receive data representing a consumable item request by polling each of the image forming apparatuses and sending the polling results from the image forming apparatus to the central controller.

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