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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2010
Applicants:

Hideki Kimura, Ebina, JP;

Masahiko Kubo, Ebina, JP;

Tomoshi Hara, Ebina, JP;

Shinsuke Sugi, Ebina, JP;

Toshihiro Matsumoto, Ebina, JP;

Kenji Mori, Ebina, JP;

Nobukazu Takahashi, Ebina, JP;

Inventors:

Hideki Kimura, Ebina, JP;

Masahiko Kubo, Ebina, JP;

Tomoshi Hara, Ebina, JP;

Shinsuke Sugi, Ebina, JP;

Toshihiro Matsumoto, Ebina, JP;

Kenji Mori, Ebina, JP;

Nobukazu Takahashi, Ebina, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image gloss control apparatus that includes a first control component and a second control component is provided. The first control component controls an image forming/fixing component, which forms an image on a recording medium using a colored image formation material and fixes the image, so that a first image is formed in a high gloss area having a high gloss level on the recording medium or an area including the high gloss area on the recording medium and is fixed. The second control component that controls the image forming/fixing component, so that a second image having a density lower than a density of the first image is formed in a low gloss area having a gloss level lower than the gloss level of the high gloss area on the recording medium where the first image is formed or the low gloss area on the first image and is fixed.


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