Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hiromasa Shibano

Tsutomu Yoshimoto

Kazuhiro Mizude

Sohichi Yoshimura

An image forming apparatus includes a CPU. After a print image is printed on a sheet, the CPU determines whether a print result is dissatisfactory. When it is determined that the print result is dissatisfactory, the image forming apparatus provides support to resolve the quality mismatch indicating the difference between the actual print quality and the print quality desired by the user.

Image forming apparatus, recording medium, and control method with problem solving guidance

A user is able to appropriately select character data such as a watermark, and importance of the document is able to be effectively recognized by an addressee using a language which is different from that of a user who sends the document. A setting accepting portion accepts setting of a first language describing a first character indicated by the first character data, and setting of a second character which is a translation of the first character to a second language; a data generating portion generates a composite image data in which the image data is combined with the first character data indicating a first character which is a translation of the second character to the first language; and an apparatus control portion controls the image forming apparatus to cause the image forming apparatus to execute image forming processing of the composite image data.

Apparatus control method and control apparatus

An abnormality detecting method and an image processing method for an image processor is provided. The image processor can easily detect an abnormal rotation of a photosensitive drum without having a special detecting means but using an existing sensor, and keeps image data until a normal toner image is transferred and fine printing is carried out. The image processor forms a toner image corresponding to image data on a plurality of photosensitive drums, and detects the position of the toner image at a given part on a transfer object, to which given part the toner image formed on the photosensitive drum is transferred, to detect a rotation failure of the photosensitive drum. When a rotation failure is detected, the image processor keeps input image data without deleting even after the end of image formation.

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Sakai, Japan

Hiromasa Shibano