Image forming apparatus having enhanced management for...

Electrophotography – Diagnostics – Consumable

Reexamination Certificate

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

C399S027000, C399S081000, C399S082000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07831156

ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus includes a sensor, a notification unit, and a controller. The sensor detects a supply-end condition of consumable supplies. The notification unit notifies a message based on the supply-end condition detected by the sensor, and provides an operation key used for setting a condition for the image forming apparatus. The notification unit includes a print-stop setting and a print-continue setting, settable for a consumable supply and used when a printing operation is suspended due to an occurrence of the supply-end condition. The controller suspends the printing operation based on the print-stop setting and continues the suspended printing operation based on the print-continue setting.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5557707 (1996-09-01), Inoue et al.
patent: 6041200 (2000-03-01), Glass et al.
patent: 6324356 (2001-11-01), Inoue
patent: 2002/0044301 (2002-04-01), Kitazawa
patent: 2002/0135792 (2002-09-01), Sommer et al.
patent: 2003/0107756 (2003-06-01), Dan et al.
patent: 2003/0161002 (2003-08-01), Nishiwaki et al.
patent: 2004/0080774 (2004-04-01), Owen et al.
patent: 2001-117448 (2001-04-01), None
U.S. Appl. No. 08/004,569, filed Jan. 14, 1993, Hayashi, et al.

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Image forming apparatus having enhanced management for... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Image forming apparatus having enhanced management for..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Image forming apparatus having enhanced management for... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4162399

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.