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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
May. 12, 2017
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit and a continuous tone processing unit. The determination unit determines an end of a continuous tone image part in which a density changes continuously, the continuous tone image part being included in image information. The continuous tone processing unit performs, in a case where a number of levels of density of a print image in the image forming apparatus is larger than a number of levels of density of the image information, continuous tone processing for causing a density of a pixel group in which adjacent pixels have a same density to be changed continuously when increasing the number of levels of the density in an end portion of the continuous tone image part.