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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1997
Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Naoko Iwata, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ordinary printing mode of forming an image and a transfer adjusting mode are provided and changed over. Under a condition of setting to the transfer adjusting mode, a pattern forming unit controls an exposing unit and thereby forms a toner image of a test pattern on a circumferential surface of a photosensitive body. A transfer controlling unit changes the transfer condition for electrostatically absorbing the toner image. An electric potential measuring unit measures a surface electric potential at a specified position. A condition detecting unit detects a condition of minimizing a rate '.DELTA.Vs/.DELTA.T' of a variation .DELTA.T of the transfer condition and a variation .DELTA.Vs of the surface electric potential on the photosensitive body. A condition setting unit adjusts the transfer condition in the ordinary printing mode based on the above transfer condition, and thereby the transfer unit can be adjusted to an optimum state.