Office machine with a single reader and associated memory for data media containing characteristics of consumables used with office machine, e.g. toner information for a color laser printer

摘要

Office machine has a reader (18) for reading multiple data media (2-5) containing data specifying the characteristics of a corresponding number of consumable products (12-15) used in the machine. The reader (18) has a memory in which the contents of the data media can be stored. Typically the data media can be chip cards or similar.