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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2021
Applicant:
Kunihiro Yamanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Kunihiro Yamanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2013.01); B41J 2/0456 (2013.01); B41J 2/2103 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus for forming an image with a coloring material on a recording medium includes a region specifier that specifies a region that becomes a margin when the image is formed on the recording medium; and a pattern image generator that generates image data of a pattern image to be formed in the region based on a size of the region and a type of the coloring material.