Patent ID: 9674394
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06Q,H04N

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a printer that performs printing on a printing medium; a drawing data creating circuit that by rasterizing and color-converting print data creates drawing data from print data, the drawing data causing the printer to perform printing; a medium supply circuit that supplies the printing medium to the printer; and a printing amount managing circuit that manages a printing amount; wherein the medium supply circuit performs the drawing data creating circuit in creating the drawing data fixes a job hue within the drawing data in printing, the printing being performed by the printer based on the drawing data; the printing amount managing circuit changes the printing amount according to a designated hue specified in the print data before the drawing data creating circuit fixes the job hue when the printing amount needs to be changed to start the primary supply; and the printing amount managing circuit, with the job hue having been fixed, corrects the printing amount according to the job hue after the printing amount is changed according to the designated hue.