Patent ID: 7512353

Claim:
An article managing apparatus for managing consumables of printing apparatuses in a print system having one or a plurality of printing apparatuses connected to a network, comprising: a consumables data storing section which stores prices of said consumables and a predetermined purchase money amount; an ordering necessity discriminating section which discriminates the necessity of ordering of the consumables; an order money amount accumulating section which accumulates and adds order money amounts of said ordering necessity consumables determined by said ordering necessity discriminating section that the ordering is necessary on the basis of the prices of said consumables; and an order consumables deciding section which decides said ordering necessity consumables, as order consumables, determined by said ordering necessity discriminating section that the ordering is necessary until an accumulated money amount obtained by said order money amount accumulating section exceeds said predetermined purchase money amount and which decides that it is impossible to order a portion of the ordering necessity consumables that corresponds to the accumulated money amount that exceeds the predetermined purchase amount; and a warning display section that displays detailed information at least about the consumables that it is impossible to order and a warning that the portion of the consumables that it is impossible to order can not be ordered, wherein said detailed information of the consumables displayed by the warning display section includes respective names of the consumables and respective apparatus names corresponding to the consumables.