Image forming apparatus, method, and program
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorYoko Shiraki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus enables utilizing an output of proof printing as an output of final printing, wherein the image forming apparatus includes an image former forming an image on a sheet, an image reader reading an image formed on the sheet, and a controller, wherein the controller acquires a determination result of whether or not a sheet, on which an image read by the image reader is formed before the final printing by the image former in order to create a reference image to be used for inspecting an output matter of a printing job, can be used for an output matter of the final printing and controls the number of sheets or copies on which the images are to be formed using the image former at the final printing.
Claims21
A reference image creating apparatus creating a reference image used for inspecting an image to be inspected formed on a sheet, the reference image creating apparatus comprising a hardware processor configured to obtain a plurality of scanned images created by reading a plurality of sheets on each of which the image is formed and to create the reference image on a basis of the plurality of scanned images obtained, wherein the hardware processor executes:
- comparing a first scanned image to a second scanned image among the plurality of scanned images obtained;
- determining whether or not to use the second scanned image to create the reference image on a basis of a result of the comparing;
- and
- excluding the second scanned image from the plurality of the scanned images to be used for creating the reference image when the second scanned image is determined not to be used for creating the reference image.
A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium including a program executed by a computer of a reference image creating apparatus for creating a reference image used for inspecting an image to be inspected formed on a sheet, the program causing the computer to execute:
- a step of obtaining a plurality of scanned images created by reading a plurality of sheets on which the images are respectively formed;
- and
- a step of creating the reference image on a basis of the plurality of scanned images obtained, wherein in the step of creating the reference image, the program causing the computer to execute:
- a step of comparing a first scanned image to a second scanned image among the plurality of scanned images obtained;
- a step of determining whether or not to use the second scanned image to create the reference image on a basis of a result of the comparing;
- and
- a step of excluding the second scanned image from the plurality of the scanned images to be used for creating the reference image when the second scanned image is determined not to be used for creating the reference image.
A reference image creation system for creating a reference image used for inspecting an image to be inspected formed on the sheet, comprising:
- an image former forming an image on a sheet,
- an image reader reading the image formed on the sheet, and
- a hardware processor configured to obtain a plurality of scanned images created by the image reader's reading of a plurality of sheets on each of which the image is formed by the image former and to create the reference image on a basis of the plurality of scanned images obtained, wherein the hardware processor executes:
- comparing a first scanned image to a second scanned image among the plurality of scanned images obtained;
- determining whether or not to use the second scanned image to create the reference image on a basis of a result of the comparing;
- and
- excluding the second scanned image from the plurality of the scanned images to be used for creating the reference image when the second scanned image is determined not to be used for creating the reference image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.