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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Naoto Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
Takuya Hayakawa, Saitama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit to form a first image of a chromatic color, a second image forming unit to form a second image of an achromatic color, a transfer unit, a reading unit, a switching unit to switch a first mode and a second mode, and a controller. In a case where an adjustment image for adjusting an image forming position is fixed to a sheet and the adjustment image fixed to the sheet is read by the reading unit, the controller performs a determining process to determine a correction value for correcting the image forming position based on a reading result of the reading unit. In a case where the controller is set to form the second image without forming the first image and the controller is set to perform the determining process, the controller forms the second image in the first mode.