US 12,073,126 B2
Printing device and print amount management system
Tetsuya Okuno, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/396,889.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-211900 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0220170 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06Q 20/42 (2012.01); H04N 1/34 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1204 (2013.01) [G06F 3/122 (2013.01); G06F 3/1236 (2013.01); G06F 3/1239 (2013.01); G06F 3/1254 (2013.01); G06Q 20/42 (2013.01); H04N 1/346 (2013.01); G06F 3/12 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing device comprising:
a print engine; and
a controller,
wherein the printing device is configured to perform printing with an allowed print amount, and
wherein the controller is configured to:
obtain addition type information representing a first guaranteed print amount or a second guaranteed print amount, the first guaranteed print amount corresponding to a first printing privilege to be purchased based on a purchase request due to a manual operation by a user, the second guaranteed print amount corresponding to a second printing privilege to be purchased based on auto purchasing without the purchase request by the user; and
switch, based on the addition type information as obtained, a control mode between a first mode in which the first guaranteed print amount is added to the allowed print amount and a second mode in which the second guaranteed print amount is added to the allowed print amount.