IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND CHARGING MANAGEMENT METHOD

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15628182

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An image forming system includes a charging management server and a plurality of image forming apparatuses managed by the charging management server. The charging management server and the plurality of image forming apparatuses are connected to a network. The charging management server uses a management database to obtain a model name of a target image forming apparatus, uses a model-release date table to obtain the release date of the target image forming apparatus, calculates a count of elapsed days since the release date to the present, and uses the count of elapsed days to obtain a discount rate in charging for the target image forming apparatus based on a discount rate table.

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KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC1-2-28 TAMATSUKURI CHUO-KU OSAKA-SHI OSAKA 5408585 ?5408585

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ARAYA, Takeshi Osaka, JP 40 483

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