Printer or copier system having re-employable container for consumables and method for the employment of the container

US6535697B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Océ Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Heiner Reihl · Freising, DE
• Edmund Creutzmann · Borgo San Lazzaro, DE
• Wolfram Keil · Poing, DE
• Bernd Schoch · Gütersloh, DE
• Hans Winter · Gelnhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 15, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 18, 2003
• Expiry date: Jan 15, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G2215/00987
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system and method are provided for coating a container for acceptance of consumables. An information carrier is provided on the container for the first memory area in which a container-individual identifier number is non-erasably stored, and an erasable second memory area is provided of the information carrier providing consumable-specific data.