Patent ID: 7096158

Claim:
A failure prediction notification system comprising: a printer; and a printer management server connected to the printer in telecommunicable fashion, wherein said printer includes: failure prediction reception means for receiving failure prediction information regarding a failure time and failure contents as notified from said printer management server; and failure prediction print means for printing the failure prediction information received by said failure prediction reception means on a print medium and outputting the printed information by employing a print function of said printer, wherein said printer management server includes: service situation acguisition means for acguiring information regarding a service situation of said printer; failure analysis means for analyzing a relation between the information regarding the service situation as acquired by said service situation acquisition means and a failure of said printer; failure prediction means for predicting an occurrence time of the failure of said printer and contents of the failure from the relation analyzed by said failure analysis means; and failure prediction notification means for notifying said printer of the occurrence time of the failure of said printer and the contents of the failure as predicted by said failure prediction means, and wherein: said failure prediction notification means notifies the predictive information predicted by said failure prediction means after a reliability of the predictive information has reached a predetermined value.