Image forming apparatus
AssigneesToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorEiji Shinohara
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an image erasing unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit performs an image forming process of forming an image on an image bearing body by a toner and transferring the toner image from the image bearing body onto a recording medium, and a refresh process of forming an image on the image bearing body by a toner and removing the toner image from the image bearing body. The control unit controls the image forming unit such that the image forming unit performs the refresh process together with the erasing process performed by the erasing unit.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a recording medium, comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to perform an image forming process of forming an image on an image bearing body by a toner and transferring the toner image from the image bearing body onto the recording medium, and a refresh process of forming an image on the image bearing body by the toner and removing the toner image from the image bearing body;
- an erasing unit configured to erase the image formed on the recording medium using an erasable toner;
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- a control unit configured to control the image forming unit such that the image forming unit performs the refresh process together with the erasing process performed by the erasing unit.
The image forming apparatus according to claim wherein the control unit controls the image forming unit to periodically perform the refresh process separately from the refresh process performed with the erasing process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.