| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide consumables for an image forming apparatus capable of appropriately managing the number of recycling times, and the image forming apparatus capable of appropriately managing the recycling of the consumables. <P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus constituted so that the consumables 2Y, 2M, 2C, 2K, 4Y, 4M, 4C, 4K, 5, 6, 7Y, 7M, 7C and 7K can be attached to/detached from a main body has a control means 26 which reads out first old and new information stored in the areas rewritable repetitively of memories 13, 18, 19, 20 and 21 provided in the consumables and showing whether or not the consumables are unused after manufacture or after recycle, and second old and new information stored in the areas rewritable only once of the memories and showing how many times the consumables are recycled, and controls operation based on the content of the first old and new information and the second old and new information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
