Patent attributes
In a printing management system of the invention, multiple printing devices 50a and 50b are connected via a network 22 with an information management apparatus 30 that manages the whole system, and are divided into plural blocks according to language, currency, and geographical factors. A jurisdiction management server 40 is provided in each of the plural blocks and is connected to the network 22. The information management apparatus 30 receives expendable consumption data regarding an expendable consumed by each of the multiple printing devices 50a and 50b at regular time intervals and transfers the received expendable consumption data to the corresponding jurisdiction management server 40 in the group to which the printing device belongs. The jurisdiction management server 40 manages a supply of the expendable to each of the printing devices 50a and 50b in the block, based on the expendable consumption data, while carrying out accounting to each of the printing devices 50a and 50b with a currency in circulation in the block.
