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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2011
Shinya Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentarou Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Tsujita, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Iio, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadashi Kasai, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsuhiro Shinohara, Kanagawa, JP;
Masakazu Terao, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Sonohara, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentarou Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Tsujita, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Iio, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadashi Kasai, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsuhiro Shinohara, Kanagawa, JP;
Masakazu Terao, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Sonohara, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image glossiness controller has a main component color specifying unit that identifies a prescribed component color and output identification information thereof. A change in amplitude of a convexoconcavity of a toner layer of the prescribed component color is greatest among those of the other component colors when each of the component color toner is formed and fixed alone. Three or more halftone dot signal generators convert clear toner image information into three or more binary clear toner image signals corresponding to three or more component colors per component color pixel using multiple halftone dot characteristics, respectively. Each of the multiple halftone dot characteristics generating three or more binary clear toner image signals has a reversed phase from that generating three or more binary component color image signals.