Patent ID: 11968336
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A control method of a printing apparatus configured to operate based on a contract concluded with a contractor related to a consumable for the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus including a mounting unit configured to receive the consumable and a printing unit configured to print an image on a print medium using the mounted consumable, the method comprising:
acquiring arrival time information of a first consumable delivered for the printing apparatus based on the contract;
predicting a usable amount of the mounted consumable at an arrival time indicated by the arrival time information acquired in the acquiring;
deciding an execution mode of maintenance save processing for weakening given maintenance processing for the printing apparatus in accordance with a prediction result in the predicting; and
displaying on the display, a first confirmation screen for confirming execution or non-execution of the maintenance saving,

wherein in a case where the execution or the non-execution of the maintenance saving is selected in the first confirmation screen on the display, the method further comprises causing the first confirmation screen not be to subsequently displayed after the execution or the non-execution of the maintenance saving is selected in the first confirmation screen regardless of a subsequent prediction result in the predicting.