Patent ID: 11889041
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A printing system comprising:
a server provided in a first place; and
a printing apparatus that is provided in a second place and is used in business-use printing and private-use printing, wherein
the printing apparatus includes:
a printing section performing printing on a medium using a printing agent;
a waste agent collecting section collecting as a waste agent, a portion of the printing agent that is consumed by the printing section but is discarded without being used in printing on the medium;
a determination section determining whether the printing agent as the waste agent is discarded in the business-use printing or the private-use printing; and
an estimation section estimating an amount of printing agent determined by the determination section to be discarded in the business-use printing.