Image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsAya KAKISHIMA, Shinji OKUYAMA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image-carrying component configured to carry a colorant image including an adjustment image, a transferring component having a recess in an outer peripheral surface and configured to transfer the colorant image from the image-carrying component to a recording medium in a transfer area while rotating in such a manner as to allow a retainer that is retaining the recording medium to pass through the recess, an image-forming component configured to form the adjustment image at such a position of the image-carrying component as to face the recess of the transferring component, and a transporting component configured to cause the recording medium retained by the retainer to pass through the transfer area.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image-carrying component configured to carry a colorant image including an adjustment image;
- a transferring component having a recess in an outer peripheral surface and configured to transfer the colorant image from the image-carrying component to a recording medium in a transfer area while rotating in such a manner as to allow a retainer that is retaining the recording medium to pass through the recess;
- an image-forming component configured to form the adjustment image at such a position of the image-carrying component as to face the recess of the transferring component;
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- a transporting component configured to cause the recording medium retained by the retainer to pass through the transfer area.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- means for carrying a colorant image including an adjustment image;
- means for transferring the colorant image from the means for carrying the colorant image to a recording medium in a transfer area while rotating in such a manner as to allow a retainer that is retaining the recording medium to pass through a recess provided in an outer peripheral surface of the means for transferring the colorant image;
- means for forming an image that is configured to form the adjustment image at such a position of the means for carrying the colorant image as to face the recess of the means for transferring the colorant image;
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- means for transporting the recording medium in such a manner as to cause the recording medium retained by the retainer to pass through the transfer area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.