US 12,149,667 B2
Printing system
Haruka Azechi, Nagoya (JP); Shunsuke Minamikawa, Nagoya (JP); Tetsuya Okuno, Nagoya (JP); Ayaka Hotta, Nagoya (JP); and Yushi Deura, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on May 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/325,197.
Application 18/325,197 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/039988, filed on Oct. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-198910 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0308587 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/34 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/344 (2013.01) [H04N 1/32128 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system comprising:
a print engine; and
one or more controllers configured to perform:
obtaining print data;
controlling the print engine to print an image corresponding to the print data on a printing medium based on a print setting value;
generating a particular print setting value and another print setting value which applicable when the print engine prints the image in response to a particular operation is made on an external device, the particular print setting value and the another printing setting value being a print setting value which is the same as the print setting value most recently applied in time in the print engine, a print setting value which is the same as the print setting value most frequently applied in the print engine, or a print setting value which is the same as the print setting value that conforms to consumables information representing a status of consumables provided in the print engine, and the particular print setting value and the another print setting value being different from each other; and
determining multiple fees corresponding to a plurality of the print setting values, respectively, to be applied when the print engine prints the image on the printing medium, the plurality of print setting values include the particular print setting value and the another print setting value and the multiple fees include a fee corresponding to applying the particular print setting value and a fee corresponding to applying the another print setting value.