Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuji Bessho
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of development units each using a developer including a toner and a carrier, a density detection unit configured to perform a density detection operation for detecting a density of a detection toner image formed by each of the plurality of development units, and a replenishment unit configured to perform a toner replenishment operation based on a result of the detection by the density detection unit. In the image forming apparatus, at least two of the plurality of development units use respective toners having different color depths in the same hue, and a frequency of the density detection operation using the development unit using a lighter color toner is higher than a frequency of the density detection operation using the development unit using a darker color toner.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a first development unit configured to develop an electrostatic image using a first developer including a lighter color toner of two toners having different color depths in a same hue;
- a second development unit configured to develop an electrostatic image using a second developer including a darker color toner of the two toners having different color depths in a same hue;
- a density detection unit configured to detect a detection toner image selectively using the first and second development units;
- a replenishment unit configured to replenish the first and second development units with toners based on a result of the detection by the density detection unit;
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- a controller configured to control a frequency of forming the detection toner image so that a frequency of forming the detection toner image using the first development unit is higher than a frequency of forming the detection toner image using the second development unit.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a first development unit configured to develop an electrostatic latent image using a toner for forming at least a color image;
- a second development unit configured to develop an electrostatic latent image using a toner for forming a white image or a transparent image;
- a density detection unit configured to detect a detection toner image selectively using the first and second development units;
- a replenishment unit configured to replenish the first and second development units with toners based on a result of the detection by the density detection unit;
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- a controller configured to control a frequency of forming the detection toner image so that a frequency of forming the detection toner image using the first development unit is higher than a frequency of forming the detection toner image using the second development unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.