Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Katsuki Fukuyama

Seiya Nomura

Masamichi Cho

Motonobu Kawabata

Yoshitomo Wada

An image forming apparatus for forming an appropriate test pattern is provided. A control sectionincludes: an image combination sectionfor combining image information corresponding to a subject image Pof a first resolution, with second pattern information which corresponds to a test pattern Pof a second resolution different from the first resolution, and which represents image information of the first resolution, so as to generate combined image information as one piece of image information; and an operation instruction sectionfor instructing a recording head, a head driving section, and a medium driving sectionto form, on a recording medium, the combined image information corresponding to one piece of image information.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image recording apparatus includes a scanning part for recording a plurality of unit images individually on a plurality of recording media, the plurality of unit images being to be superimposed on each other to form a single objective image. The scanning part causes the plurality of unit images to be in different positions. Defects appear in different positions of the plurality of unit images, and are prevented from coinciding with each other in the objective image.

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Kyoto, Japan

Katsuki Fukuyama