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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2020
Applicant:
Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masakazu Date, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/393 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); G01J 3/46 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/2142 (2013.01); B41J 11/009 (2013.01); B41J 29/393 (2013.01); G01J 3/46 (2013.01); H04N 1/00023 (2013.01); H04N 1/00031 (2013.01); H04N 1/6033 (2013.01); B41J 2029/3935 (2013.01); G01J 2003/467 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that forms an image on a conveyed recording medium; and a determining device that determines whether a type of the recording medium is a first recording medium or a second recording medium, wherein if the type of the recording medium is determined to be the first recording medium, the hardware processor forms a normal image on the recording medium, whereas if the type of the recording medium is determined to be the second recording medium, the hardware processor forms a test image on the recording medium.