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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2016
Hiroto Tachibana, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Suhara, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Ueno, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming method is for forming an image using an electrostatic latent image that is formed by exposing a surface of an image bearer in accordance with an image pattern that includes a plurality of image areas in combination. Each of the plurality of image areas includes a plurality of pixels. A part of pixels to be exposed in each of the plurality of image areas is set as a non-exposure pixel group in accordance with a position of any one of the plurality of image areas in the image pattern. Pixels that are different from the non-exposure pixel group in each of the plurality of image areas are set as a high-output exposure pixel group that is exposed with an optical output value that is higher than a predetermined optical output value that is needed to expose the image area.