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US 8,913,932 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorHidenori Akamatsu
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: image-forming units of multiple colors that form images on an image carrier in such a manner that the images are overlaid on one another, and a determination unit that determines necessity of position alignment correction of an image of each color accompanying image formation in accordance with a degree of change of image formation environment from when correction was executed in the past and a combination of colors used for the image formation.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprises:
- image-forming units of multiple colors that form images on an image carrier in such a manner that the images are overlaid on one another, and
- a determination unit that determines necessity of position alignment correction of an image of each color accompanying image formation in accordance with a degree of change of image formation environment from when correction was executed in the past and a combination of colors used for the image formation.
An image forming method comprises:
- forming images of multiple colors on an image carrier in such a manner that the images are overlaid on one another, and
- determining necessity of position alignment correction of an image of each color accompanying image formation in accordance with a degree of change of image formation environment from when correction was executed in the past and a combination of colors used for the image formation.
An image forming apparatus comprises:
- means for forming images of multiple colors on an image carrier in such a manner that the images are overlaid on one another, and a means for determining necessity of position alignment correction of an image of each color accompanying image formation in accordance with a degree of change of image formation environment from when correction was executed in the past and a combination of colors used for the image formation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.