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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
Ko Tokumaru, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Shiori, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuya Murata, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahisa Koike, Tokyo, JP;
Ko Tokumaru, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Shiori, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuya Murata, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahisa Koike, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is configured to form an image on a recording medium by scanning of the image forming apparatus by a user. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming device and processing circuitry. The image forming device includes a plurality of image forming arrays. Each of the image forming arrays includes an image forming portion configured to form the image. The processing circuitry is configured to set an image forming array to be used to form the image, according to a use mode of the image forming apparatus.