| 摘要 |
A method for improving the printing quality, particularly for electrographic color printing, is described for a printer or copier system (1). Print consumables, particularly toner (59), are monitored in container-exact fashi on and substance-specific information are employed for the control of the printing process. Toner expiration dates for the consumables are identified and noted early at the respective printing location. Maculature is thereby avoided. Th e consumable contained in the container (2) and the amount of consumable contained is thus stored in machine-readable fashion at the container (2). A n information carrier (13, 30, 35, 38) is provided at the container for non- contacting transmission of data and energy from a data read and/or write station (11) t o the container (2). A transponder (13) that is provided with an individual hardwa re identifier is proposed as information carrier. The hardware identifier can b e employed as component part of codes for device control. Further, the printer or copier system comprises a recycling concept for consumables containers, particularly for example electrographic devices. One and the same container (2) is thereby multiply employed; the current container content can be acquired container-individually at any time by machine. To that end, the containers (2) are provided with an information carrier (13, 30, 35, 38) tha t contains machine-readably encoded information about the current or more recently contained consumable (59) situated in the container (2). A module that can b e electronically written and read in non-contacting fashion is proposed as information carrier, particularly a transponder (13). The data stored in the transponder can be supplied to other system components such as a filling station (3), a central computer (51) with a data bank and the printer or copier devices (1) in parallel via a data network. |
