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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2018
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Ichikawa, Shizuoka, JP;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo, JP;
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a printer, a sensor, and a processor. The printer forms an image with image forming material of colors on a medium. The sensor detects the image forming material of each color on the medium. The processor forms a pattern with the image forming material of the colors on the medium using the printer, acquires a position of a pattern of each color using the sensor, and after executing correction for bringing positions where images of the other colors are formed close to a position where an image of a reference color is formed based on the position of each pattern, corrects a position where either an image of a first color or an image of a second color is formed by the printer based on a distance between patterns of the first color and second color furthest away from each other.