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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2011
Hidetoshi Atsumi, Osaka, JP;
Hidetoshi Atsumi, Osaka, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a high speed correction mode in which, at the time of a successive image forming process on a plurality of recording sheets, a preset number of recording sheets among the plurality of recording sheets are subjected to image formation based on a corrected image writing position, and other recording sheets are subjected to image formation based on the corrected image writing position; and a linear correction mode in which the plurality of recording sheets are subjected to image formation based on the corrected image writing position; and performs switching to either one of the high speed correction mode and the linear correction mode according to a correction amount βb for a recording sheet detected at the time of image formation with respect to a correction amount βa for the preset number of recording sheets.