Patent ID: 9507294
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. An image-forming apparatus comprising: a plurality of image-forming units capable of forming a full-bleed image with no margin around a recording medium in an image-forming region larger than an image-forming surface region of the recording medium using toners of three or more color components having a volume average particle size of about 2 to about 5 μm; an intermediate transfer member to which images are transferred from the image-forming units and on which the images are carried before the images are transferred to the recording medium; a transfer device that simultaneously transfers the images from the intermediate transfer member to the recording medium; a fixing device that fixes the images transferred by the transfer device to the recording medium; and an image-forming process unit that, at least if an image to be formed in a peripheral region of the recording medium during the formation of the full-bleed image has a toner layer thickness larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold, converts the image to be formed in the peripheral region of the recording medium into an image having a toner layer thickness smaller than or equal to the threshold while maintaining the image density ratio of the individual toners.