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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2009
Applicant:
Atsushi Togami, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Atsushi Togami, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/205 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet-type determining unit that determines a sheet type of a recording sheet; a sheet-characteristic measuring unit that measures a sheet characteristic of the recording sheet; an image processing unit that performs an image processing on image data of an image for adjusting a consumption amount of color material that is used for forming the image on the recording sheet based on the sheet type and the sheet characteristic; and an image forming unit that forms the image of the image data processed by the image processing unit on the recording sheet.