Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKo Tokumaru, Jun Shiori, Takuya Murata, Yuji Tanaka, Takahisa Koike
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is configured to form an image on a recording medium by scanning of the image forming apparatus by a user. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming device and processing circuitry. The image forming device includes a plurality of image forming arrays. Each of the image forming arrays includes an image forming portion configured to form the image. The processing circuitry is configured to set an image forming array to be used to form the image, according to a use mode of the image forming apparatus.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium by scanning of the image forming apparatus by a user, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming device including a plurality of image forming arrays, each of which includes an image forming portion configured to form the image, each of the image forming arrays being an image printing array which prints by forming the image on the recording medium, and
- processing circuitry configured to set an image forming array to be used to form the image, according to a use mode of the image forming apparatus.
A method for forming an image on a recording medium by scanning of an image forming apparatus by a user, the image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming arrays, each of which includes an image forming portion configured to form the image, the method comprising:
- setting an image forming array to be used to form the image, among the plurality of image forming arrays, according to a use mode of the image forming apparatus;
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- printing the image on the recording medium using the image forming array which has been set.
A non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable code for causing an image forming apparatus to execute a process of forming an image on a recording medium by scanning of the image forming apparatus by a user, the image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming arrays, each of which includes an image forming portion configured to form the image, the process comprising:
- setting an image forming array to be used to form the image, among the plurality of image forming arrays, according to a use mode of the image forming apparatus;
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- printing the image on the recording medium using the image forming array which has been set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.