Patent ID: 6264301
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A replaceable printing component for an ink-jet printing system having at least one replaceable printing component, the replaceable printing component comprising:an electrical storage device responsive to printing system control signals for transferring information between the printing component and the ink-jet printing system, the electrical storage device including:a tag family identifier identifying a family of tags of a plurality of families of tags; anda plurality of tags within the family of tags, each tag of the plurality of tags is associated with a replaceable consumable parameter, with each tag of the plurality of tags having a tag value associated therewith, wherein the ink-jet printing system reads the tag family identifier from the electrical storage device to select the family of tags, each tag of the plurality of tags read by the ink-jet printer is identified based on the selected family of tags and is used to identify the associated replaceable consumable parameter.