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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a printer in which the timing for replacing each consumable component constituting a label printer can be informed accurately. SOLUTION: In the maintenance information table of an EEPROM 21, a guaranteed distance, the term of guarantee, the date of replacement, the count of a distance counter, and the like, are stored for each consumable component. A CPU 11 counts the number of rotating steps of a stepping motor 7 and updates the count of each consumable component on the maintenance information table. At a specified timing, e.g. the end of print, the CPU 11 makes a decision whether the carrying distance being calculated from the count has exceeded the guaranteed distance or not, and makes a decision whether the term of guarantee has elapsed or not after the date of replacement based on the date of today being outputted from a calendar IC 22 for each consumable component and then informs the timing for replacing each consumable component from an informing section 23 depending on the decision results. When the consumable component is replaced, the date of replacement is updated and the count is initialized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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