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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2005
Yoshiki Yoshida, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshiki Yoshida, Kawasaki, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism configured to perform an image processing operation for forming a plurality of elementary-color images, superposing the plurality of elementary-color images sequentially and accurately into a single color image on a transfer medium, and transferring the single color image onto a recording sheet. An error correction mechanism is configured to perform a plurality of different recording error corrections for correcting different recording errors in a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction during a time interval between the image processing operations on the recording sheet and on a following recording sheet. And, a selector is configured to activate at least two of the plurality of different recording error corrections.