Consumables management apparatus and expendable item management system

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase consumables effectively used before a time near an original life compared with a case where the replacement time of the same replaceable consumables loaded on a plurality of image forming devices is managed according to a certain standard irrespective of a difference in use state between the image forming devices.SOLUTION: The consumable management device includes classification means S22 for classifying a plurality of image forming devices into a high image quality required device group and a low image quality required device group based on the use information of respective image forming devices collected from the plurality of image forming devices on which replaceable consumables are loaded, prediction means S25 for predicting the replacement time of the consumables of the image forming device classified into the high image quality device group by a first threshold value set for the reduction estimation information of the remaining amount of consumables and S29 for predicting the replacement time of the consumables of the image forming device classified into the low image quality device group by a second threshold value extended from the first threshold value, and warning means S26 and S30 for warning the information of consumables the replacement time of which is predicted to arrive by the prediction means.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4