Image forming apparatus, and method for producing printed matter
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorKunihiko SUGIMOTO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus for printing an original image indicated based on image data is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a paper feed portion that conveys, to a print position, paper having a size in a feed direction larger than a size of the original image, a region selection portion that selects, as an additional image, a band-shaped region that has a predetermined width and extends inwardly from an edge of the original image in a direction corresponding to the feed direction of the paper, and an image correction portion that adds the additional image repeatedly in such a manner that the additional image is placed adjacent to each other paper.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus for printing an original image indicated based on image data, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a paper feed portion that conveys, to a print position, paper having a size in a feed direction larger than a size of the original image;
- a region selection portion that selects, as an additional image, a band-shaped region that has a predetermined width and extends inwardly from an edge of the original image in a direction corresponding to the feed direction of the paper;
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- an image correction portion that adds the additional image repeatedly in such a manner that the additional image is placed adjacent to each other outwardly from the edge of the original image,
- wherein a corrected image obtained by adding the additional image with the image correction portion is printed onto the paper.
A method for producing a printed matter on which an original image indicated based on image data is printed, the method comprising:
- selecting, by an image processing portion, as an additional image, a band-shaped region that has a predetermined width and extends inwardly from an edge of the original image in a direction corresponding to the feed direction of the paper;
- performing, by the image processing portion, image correction of adding the additional image repeatedly in such a manner that the additional image is placed adjacent to each other outwardly from the edge of the original image until an edge of the corrected image is beyond a cut intended position set outside the edge of the original image;
- printing, by an image forming apparatus for conveying paper to a print position to print an image onto the paper, a corrected image obtained as a result of the image correction onto paper having a size larger than a size of the original image in the feed direction;
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- cutting the paper on which the corrected image has been printed at a position corresponding to the cut intended position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.