Image forming system
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorCheol-soo YANG
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Abstract
An image forming system includes a first developing unit to form an image using a dry developer and a second developing unit to form an image using a wet developer. The first developing unit forms an image using yellow, magenta, cyan and black developers, and the second developing unit forms an image using a developer having lighter colors than the yellow, magenta, cyan and black developers. Therefore, light colors requiring high resolution and high definition may be printed using a wet type image forming module capable of easily expressing the light colors, and original and dark colors may be printed using a dry image forming module. Hence, it is possible to print a color image having high resolution and high definition, and enhance the color reproducibility of the image.
Claims34
An image forming system comprising:
- a first developing unit to form an image using a dry developer;
- and
- a second developing unit to form an image using a wet developer,
- wherein the dry developer used by the first developing unit comprises yellow, magenta, cyan and black developers, and the wet developer used by the second developing unit comprises a developer having a lighter color than the dry developer used by the first developing unit.
An image forming system comprising:
- a first printing apparatus using a dry developer;
- and
- a second printing apparatus configured in the form of a module detachably mounted in the image forming system, the second printing apparatus using a wet developer,
- wherein a first color developer used by the first printing apparatus is different in color from a second color developer used by the second printing apparatus.
An image forming system comprising:
- a first image forming system comprising a first developing unit to form an image using a dry developer;
- a second image forming system comprising a second developing unit to form an image using a wet developer, the second image forming system being detachably mounted in the first image forming system;
- and
- an interface apparatus to connect the first image forming system to the second image forming system, to enable a signal exchange therebetween.
An image forming system, comprising:
- a dry developing unit to form a first image on a recording medium;
- and
- a wet developing unit to form a second image on the recording medium,
- the dry developing unit and the wet developing unit being disposed within a housing.
A method of forming an image in an image forming apparatus having a wet image forming unit and a dry image forming unit disposed in a housing, the method comprising:
- feeding a recording medium to at least one of the wet image forming unit and the dry image forming unit to form at least one of a first image and a second image on the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.