IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• US 20160085485A1
• Filed: 01/30/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Shirai, Akira, Katayama, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 9,619,184 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1234 Errors handling and recovery, e.g. reprinting G06F3/1261 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/027 Test patterns and calibration arrangements for controlling or analysing printing mechanisms of typewriters or selective printing units B41J29/393 takes precedence; colour correction using test pattern analysis in general H04N1/6033
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1868 for fitting to an output condition, e.g. paper colour or format
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/408 Handling exceptions, e.g. faults computer driven error handling and recovery for a printer G06F3/1234

Abstract

There is provided an image forming apparatus. A transmitter is configured to transmit a test pattern in advance to another image forming apparatus when transferring print data to the another image forming apparatus. An acquirer is configured to acquire an optical reading result of an output of the test pattern made by the another image forming apparatus. A corrector is configured to correct the print data on the basis of the reading result so that the print data is output at the another image forming apparatus in the same quality as the image forming apparatus. A transfer unit is configured to transfer the corrected print data to the another image forming apparatus when the corrected print data does not include data which is not output at the another image forming apparatus in the same quality as the image forming apparatus.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a test pattern in advance to another image forming apparatus when transferring print data to the another image forming apparatus;

an acquirer configured to acquire an optical reading result of an output of the test pattern made by the another image forming apparatus;

a corrector configured to correct the print data on the basis of the reading result so that the print data is output at the another image forming apparatus in the same quality as the image forming apparatus; and

a transfer unit configured to transfer the corrected print data to the another image forming apparatus when the corrected print data does not include data which is not output at the another image forming apparatus in the same quality as the image forming apparatus.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the quality comprises at least one of a density value and a line width of an image, and

wherein the corrector corrects at least one of the density value and the line width of the print data.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when an instruction to output a plurality of copies is issued, the print data is data of a first page and thereafter of a copy under printing at the image forming apparatus.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when data being output at the image forming apparatus includes data which is not output at the another image forming apparatus in the same quality as the image forming apparatus and data to be printed next to the data being output at the image forming apparatus includes the data which is not output at the another image forming apparatus in the same quality as the image forming apparatus, the print data is the data to be printed next to the data being output at the image forming apparatus.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for enabling a computer to function as:

a transmitter configured to transmit a test pattern in advance to another image forming apparatus when transmitting print data to the another image forming apparatus;

an acquirer configured to acquire an optical reading result of an output of the test pattern made by the another image forming apparatus;

a corrector configured to correct the print data on the basis of the reading result so that the print data is output at the another image forming apparatus in the same quality as the image forming apparatus; and

a transfer unit configured to transfer the corrected print data to the another image forming apparatus when the corrected print data does not include data which is not output at the another image forming apparatus in the same quality as the image forming apparatus.