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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Shoji, Matsudo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A process of reducing a toner consumption amount is to be performed on a region within several tens of pixels from a rendering end. An excessive amount of toner is supplied from a toner supplying unit which faces a non-printing region of a photosensitive drum within several tens of pixels at most from an end portion of a printing region. Accordingly, if only contour pixels in the rendering end are processed by an existing processing system, the contour correction and the process of reducing a toner consumption amount may be simultaneously realized. A contour is calculated as a processing result of the existing processing system, and an existing process is performed on a contour portion. The process of reducing a toner consumption amount is performed on other portions.