COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROL DEVICE CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD

• Main Author: OGAWA KAZUAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 20.10.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide a technology for advising a specific method or a specific function to a user at appropriate timing.SOLUTION: A control device which controls a printing device, includes a display control unit for allowing a display unit to display a screen. When a condition obtained at first timing by using usage state information indicating a usage state of consumables for the printing device shows a first condition, the display control unit causes the display unit to display a first screen that advises a specific method for allowing a user of the printing device to obtain the consumables. When a condition obtained at second timing by using the usage state information indicating the usage state of the consumables for the printing device shows a second condition different from the first condition, the display control unit causes the display unit to display a second screen that is different from the first screen and advises a specific function for reducing an amount of usage of the consumables.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】 適切なタイミングで特定の方法又は特定の機能をユーザに案内するための技術を提供する。【解決手段】 印刷装置を制御する制御装置は、画面を表示部に表示させる表示制御部を備え、前記表示制御部は、第１のタイミングにおいて、前記印刷装置のための消耗品の使用状況を示す使用状況情報を用いて得られる条件が第１の条件を示す場合に、前記印刷装置のユーザが前記消耗品を取得するための特定の方法を案内する第１の画面を前記表示部に表示させ、前記表示制御部は、第２のタイミングにおいて、前記使用状況情報を用いて得られる条件が、前記第１の条件とは異なる第２の条件を示す場合に、前記消耗品の使用量を低減するための特定の機能を案内する、前記第１の画面とは異なる第２の画面を前記表示部に表示させる。【選択図】図２