Konica Minolta, Inc.

Yan Shen

Yasuyuki Inada

Hideo Yamaki

Futoshi Okazaki

Takahiro Kuroda

Yu Mukobayashi

Motoki Nakano

Yoshitaka Nomura

An image forming apparatus includes: a job acquirer that acquires a print job; a photoconductor including a surface on which a toner image is to be formed; an electrifying member that electrifies the photoconductor; an exposure member that exposes the photoconductor; a developing member that supplies toner to the photoconductor; a cleaner that cleans the photoconductor; and a controller connected to the job acquirer to control the image forming apparatus, wherein the controller computes a first non-toner region that is provided on the surface of the photoconductor when the toner image is formed on the photoconductor, the first non-toner region not containing toner in a longitudinal direction of the surface of the photoconductor, and the controller causes the exposure member and the developing member to form the toner image on the photoconductor and to form a set of toner patches in the first non-toner region.

Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same

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Aichi, Japan

Yan Shen