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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2006
Kazuo Mohri, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Mohri, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes image-forming process cartridges arranged in tandem; a color-information acquiring unit configured to acquire color information representing a color of an image to be formed by each of the image-forming process cartridges; an image-information distributing unit configured to distribute print information for the color to an image-forming process cartridge that forms an image of the color; a designating unit configured to designate a print mode that includes a monochromatic mode and a full-color mode; a control unit configured to control image forming operation by the image-forming process cartridges to perform a print operation in designated print mode; and an alarming unit configured to generate an alarm for designation for the full-color mode when the color is identical in two or more image-forming process cartridges.