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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2008
Daijiro Saito, Hachioji, JP;
Daijiro Saito, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section in which writing units are disposed in a sub-scanning direction for each color, the writing units having writing elements arranged in a main scanning direction, and which forms a color image by superimposing an image of each color formed by the writing units, an image converting section to convert an input image data to an image data of a color which corresponds to each writing unit, a storage section to store information according to an arrangement of the writing elements for each writing unit, a correction section to correct an output timing for each pixel of converted the image data for each color based on the information according to the arrangement of the writing elements for each writing unit, a setting section to set an operation mode according to an image forming and a control section to control a correction based on the operation mode.