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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshiya Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, LTD, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/501 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/501 ;
Abstract
The color toner application level is flexibly adjusted to save the toner consumption by lowering the developing bias voltage value while color balance is maintained by adjusting gamma characteristics. The toner save mode is invoked based upon the detection of substantially unequal toner consumption among color components.