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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Shinichi Hatanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Hatanaka, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for forming a color image on a recording medium includes detecting an ejection failure of a group of color ink recording elements for ejecting color ink drops, storing recording data originally expected to be processed by at least one color recording element exhibiting the ejection failure of the color recording elements of the group in a case where the ejection failure is detected in the detecting step, and compensating the ejection failure by recording an achromatic dot at a pixel position to which at least one color dot is originally expected to be recorded on the recording medium based on recording data stored in a data storage unit.