Patent ID: 11943395
Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming unit for forming one or more images on a surface of a sheet;
a transportation path on which the sheet is transported;
a first image reader for reading the surface of the sheet on the transportation path;
a second image reader disposed downstream of the first image reader in a transporting direction of the sheet for reading the surface of the sheet;
wherein the image forming apparatus has at least three reading modes including a first reading mode, a second reading mode and a third reading mode,
wherein the first reading mode is the mode using data obtained by reading a same surface of a same single sheet by both the first image reader and the second image reader, the second reading mode is the mode using data obtained by reading a surface of a single sheet by the first image reader, and the third reading mode is the mode using data obtained by reading a surface of a single sheet by the second image reader, and
wherein the image forming unit is controlled in accordance with a result of a reading operation of each of the first reading mode, the second reading mode and the third reading mode.