PRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINT MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PRINT MANAGEMENT METHOD, PRINT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print management system to appropriately account according to consumed quantity of ink in a printing device by a user.

SOLUTION: There are: a printer 1 (as a printing device and a part of a print management device) having: an ink availability counter 17c (memory section for storing available ink quantity) for storing quantity of ink which is available for use in a printer; an adding control section 17d (adder section for adding the quantity of ink to be used) for adding to a present ink quantity another quantity of ink; a print management control section 17 (print management control section) for determining if printing is available according to value which the counter 17c stores; a personal computer 30 (adding request transmitting section) for transmitting ink adding request signal to request addition of quantity of ink to accounting management device; and a accounting server 40 (accounting management device) for accounting based on the adding request signal and for transmitting adding approval signal to the personal computer 30. The printer 1 adds the quantity of ink included in the adding approval signal from the accounting server 40 to the quantity of ink in the ink availability counter 17c.

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