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

  • US 6,535,697 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2002
  • Issued: 03/18/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for coding a container for acceptance of consumables for printer or copier devices, comprising the steps of:

  • providing a machine-readable and machine-writable information carrier on the container;

    providing the information carrier with a first memory area in which a container-individual identifier number is non-erasably stored; and

    writing consumable-specific data in encoded fashion in machine-readable form in a multiply writable and erasable second memory area of the information carrier.

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