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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2007
Tomohiro Tamaoki, Moriya, JP;
Tomohiro Tamaoki, Moriya, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus which can prevent degradation of image quality in a case where dot patterns for preventing the formation of image stripes are superimposed on respective developed images corresponding to image signals. Developed images are formed on a photosensitive drum using developers of respective different colors based on image information. The developed images formed on the photosensitive drum are transferred onto an intermediate transfer belt. For each of the developed images of the respective colors, a number of dot developed images which are minute dot-shaped images formed in a dispersed manner are transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt.