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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2022
Applicant:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Manami Hiraide, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 9/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 9/0926 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image with a brilliant toner on a recording medium; a medium color determiner that determines whether the recording medium is white or colored; and an image forming controller that controls the image forming unit. When the medium color determiner determines that the recording medium is colored, the image forming controller increases an amount of the brilliant toner per unit area of the image formed on the recording medium as compared to when the recording medium is white.