| 摘要 |
There is disclosed a cartridge (107K,107F) for containing ink therein, and which can be detachably mounted on an ink-jet printer (1) having a memory (90) that stores information, in a printer format, corresponding to an amount of ink in said cartridge. The cartridge comprises a cartridge body (171) and a rewritable non-volatile memory (80) mounted on the cartridge body and storing data, in an ink cartridge format, corresponding to at least one of a remaining amount of ink contained in said cartridge and an ink consumption. The ink cartridge format is different from the printer format, in that the ink cartridge format is 8-bit data and the printer format is 32-bit data, or the data in the ink cartridge format is obtained by converting the information in the printer format to data representing a percentage, or the information is stored in the printer memory (90) in a parallel format and the data is stored in the rewritable non-volatile memory (80) in a serial format. |
