US 11,731,431 B2
Printing system and printing device
Shinya Yamagata, Matsumoto (JP); and Yoshiharu Mizuno, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/591,815.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-016463 (JP), filed on Feb. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0242132 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17509 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17569 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17589 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system that manages a print material, comprising:
a printing device configured to use the print material to perform printing on a medium; and
a server device configured to communicate with the printing device via a network, wherein
the printing device includes
a printing unit configured to use the print material stored in a storage body to perform the printing on the medium,
a remaining amount detector configured to detect a remaining amount of the print material stored in the storage body,
a maintenance unit configured to perform maintenance on the printing unit, and
a notifying unit configured to perform predetermined notification regarding either replacement of the storage body or refilling of the storage body with the print material, and
either the printing device or the server device includes a selector configured to select either the maintenance to be performed on the printing unit by the maintenance unit or the predetermined notification by the notifying unit based on the remaining amount of the print material detected by the remaining amount detector when an amount of the print material used for a predetermined time period is equal to or smaller than a defined amount.