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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2006
Tsuneo Maki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsuneo Maki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming device comprises a carriage on which a printing head is carried, a plurality of nozzles each discharging a droplet of printing liquid being arrayed in the printing head. A main scanning of the carriage to a sheet is performed and the sheet is fed intermittently so that an image is formed on the sheet. When a continuous printing of images to sheets is performed and quality of an image formed on a following sheet is the same as quality of an image formed on a preceding sheet, the image formation to a preceding-sheet rear edge and a following-sheet front edge is performed by a same main scanning. When the following-sheet image quality differs from the preceding-sheet image quality, the image formation to the following sheet is performed after the image formation to the preceding-sheet rear edge is completed.