Image forming apparatus and method for image forming
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKyeong-man Kim, Hyun-soo Oh, Seong-wook Han, Yoon-tae Lee
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a sensor configured to sense a toner concentration, a processor configured to determine at least one of a coring level and a total area coverage (TAC) level according to the detected toner concentration, and an image former configured to print the rendered print data.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image former to transfer toner to an image forming medium, the image former to form an image based on image-forming data by transferring toner to the image forming medium;
- a sensor to detect a toner concentration of the toner transferred to the image forming medium;
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- a processor to:
- determine one or a combination of a coring level or a total area coverage (TAC) level, according to the detected toner concentration, and
- in response to the one or the combination of the determined coring level or the determined TAC level, control rendering the image-forming data according to at least one of the determined coring level and/or the determined TAC level, such that the image former is to form the image based on the rendered image-forming data.
A method for an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- transferring toner, by an image former, to an image forming medium;
- detecting, by a sensor, a toner concentration of the toner transferred to the image forming medium;
- by a processor:
- determining one or a combination of a coring level or a total area coverage (TAC) level, based on the detected toner concentration, and
- in response to the one or the combination of the determined coring level or the determined TAC level, controlling rendering image-forming data based on at least one of the determined coring level and/or the determined TAC level;
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- by the image former, forming an image based on the rendered image-forming data.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising a computer-executable program for executing a method for an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- transferring toner, by an image former, to an image forming medium;
- detecting a toner concentration of the toner transferred to the image forming medium, by a sensor;
- determining one or a combination of a coring level or a total area coverage (TAC) level, based on the detected toner concentration;
- in response to the one or the combination of the determined coring level or the determined TAC level, rendering image-forming data based on at least one of the determined coring level and/or the determined TAC level;
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- by the image former, forming an image based on the rendered image-forming data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.