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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
May. 29, 2002
Su-jong Jeong, Gyunggi-do, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus compensating for printing density of a toner image by adjusting a quantity of light to form the toner image in accordance with a variation of a resistance of a roller includes an electrical charge roller electrically charging a photosensitive drum, a laser scan unit projecting the image light on the photosensitive drum to form an electrostatic latent image corresponding to an input image, a development roller developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive drum with toner to form the toner image, a transfer roller rotating in contact with the photosensitive drum and transferring the toner image to a sheet of paper when a predetermined voltage is supplied to the transfer roller, and a controller controlling the laser scan unit and varying the quantity of the image light projected from the laser scan unit in accordance with the variation of a resistance value of the transfer roller.