Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKatsuhiko Maeda
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is constructed to include an image bearing member which is rotatably supported to bear a toner image, a light beam scanning section to simultaneously scan the image bearing member by a plurality of light beams so as to form an electrostatic latent image, a developing section to develop the electrostatic latent image into the toner image, a transfer section to transfer the toner image onto a recording medium, and an ON start timing adjuster to adjust an ON start timing of one of the plurality of light beams, based on an image tone of each of a plurality of patterns of an image pattern formed by the light beam scanning section.
Claims30
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing member, which is rotatably supported, to bear a toner image;
- a light beam scanning section to simultaneously scan the image bearing member by a plurality of light beams so as to form an electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member;
- a developing section to develop the electrostatic latent image into the toner image by supplying a toner to the image bearing member;
- a transfer section to transfer the toner image on the image bearing member onto a recording medium;
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- an ON start timing adjuster to adjust an ON start timing of one of the plurality of light beams, based on an image tone of each of a plurality of patterns of an image pattern formed by the light beam scanning section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.