A toner monitoring network printer system and method of monitoring a toner
cartridge thereof. A first network printer includes a communication
module to communicate data with terminals through a network and to
support communication with a second network printer, a toner residue
computing part to compute a toner residue value of a toner cartridge
based on a number of pages printed by the first network printer, a memory
to store toner cartridge information including the toner residue value
computed by the toner residue computing part, and a central processing
device to control the communication module to provide the second network
printer with the toner cartridge information including the toner residue
value computed by the toner residue computing part, and to control the
toner cartridge information including the toner residue value provided
from a second network printer to be stored in at least one of the memory
and the toner cartridge.