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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2009
Hiroyuki Funayama, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoki Hirako, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideo Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Keita Kumokiri, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsugu Kamio, Kanagawa, JP;
Shun Kuwahara, Kanagawa, JP;
Izumi Suda, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Funayama, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoki Hirako, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideo Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Keita Kumokiri, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsugu Kamio, Kanagawa, JP;
Shun Kuwahara, Kanagawa, JP;
Izumi Suda, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit, a conveying unit and controller. The image formation unit includes a rotating photoreceptor, a latent image formation unit, a developing unit, a first transfer unit, and a second transfer unit. Regardless of forming or not forming on the photoreceptor a belt-shaped image which is not being transferred onto a recording medium, the controller controls the image forming unit such that formation of an image quality adjusting image that is not transferred to the recording medium starts from a predetermined position in a rotational direction of the photoreceptor, and such that the recorded image is formed further downstream in the rotational direction of the photoreceptor than an image quality adjusting image region.