DEVICE FOR MONITORING INSTALLATION ENVIRONMENT OF PRINTER, PRINTER AND METHOD FOR MONITORING INSTALLATION ENVIRONMENT OF PRINTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique to prompt the improvement in the installation environment of a printer by quickly recognizing the propriety of the installation environment of the printer.;SOLUTION: The device for monitoring the installation environment of the printer is equipped with detection means (16, 18, 20, 22 and 24) detecting an environmental parameter showing the environment of the installation place of the printer, a judgement means (30) judging whether or not the environmental parameter is within the range of a prescribed environmental allowable value, a message making means (34) making a message showing an effect that the environmental parameter is not within the range of the environmental allowable value when the judgement means judges that the environmental parameter is not within the range of the environmental allowable value, and a communication means (104) transmitting the message made by the message making means to an external device.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI