LIFE PREDICTION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND LIFE PREDICTION SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus that can improve the accuracy of predicting the life of a consumable.SOLUTION: A life prediction system 100 predicting the life of a consumable 12 includes: information collection means for collecting, of pieces of information on a plurality of element members constituting the consumable 12, a film thickness value Tduring manufacture of a photoreceptor drum having correlation with the life of the consumable 12; and life prediction means for predicting the life of the consumable 12 from the correlation of the film thickness Tof the photoreceptor drum with the life of the consumable 12 on the basis of the film thickness Tduring manufacture of the photoreceptor drum collected by the information collection means.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1