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Method for associating a customer accessible supply item with an imaging apparatus

US7627257B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Lexmark International, Inc. · US

Inventors

Cyrus Bradford Clarke · Lexington, US
William Paul Cook · Lexington, US
Steven Wayne Parish · Lexington, US
William Shannon Spencer · Lexington, US
Peter Wallin · Kalmar, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 25, 2006
Grant date	Dec 1, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 26, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03G15/5087
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for associating a customer accessible supply item of a first type with an imaging apparatus includes communicating identification information between the customer accessible supply item of the first type and the imaging apparatus; and operationally locking the customer accessible supply item of the first type with only the imaging apparatus based on the identification information, to the exclusion of other imaging apparatuses and other customer accessible supply items of the first type.

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