Patent ID: 9636910
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A printer comprising: an expendable supply replaceably installed in the printer and used in a printing operation of the printer; a detector that detects at least one of a power-on operation of the printer, a resume operation from an energy-saving mode of the printer and an installation of a replacement expendable supply in the printer; a determiner that determines whether or not a recommended limit of the expendable supply has passed, based on a production date or a usage start date of the expendable supply, the recommended limit set before a usable limit of the expendable supply, and an elapsed date from the production date or the usage start date; a warning generator that generates a warning for notifying that the usable limit of the expendable supply is approaching, when the determiner determines that the recommended limit of the expendable supply has passed; and a memory storage that stores a warning cycle including a first time period and a second time period after the first time period, and a timing of a last warning generation after the recommended limit, wherein, upon determination by the determiner that the recommended limit has passed and upon detection by the detector of the power-on operation, the resume operation from the energy-saving mode, or the installation of the replacement expendable supply, the warning generator determines whether to generate a warning, wherein, in determining whether to generate a warning, the warning generator: wherein the warning generator: