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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2023
Shigetoshi Hosaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigetoshi Hosaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes carriages each carrying a liquid discharge head and circuitry. The circuitry acquires divided print data having a size extended in a direction corresponding to a conveyance direction of a recording medium from a size corresponding to a length of a nozzle array of the liquid discharge head in the conveyance direction; identifies, for the liquid discharge head of a particular carriage, from the divided print data, a shifted data portion having a size corresponding to the length of the nozzle array and being shifted by a number of pixels corresponding to an amount of deviation from a target installation position of the particular carriage in the conveyance direction; controls the liquid discharge head to discharge ink to the recording medium using the shifted data portion; and controls the particular carriage to move in a main scanning direction based on the shifted data portion.