Patent ID: 9566782
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B41J,B65H

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a feeding unit that feeds a recording medium; an ejection unit that ejects droplets onto the recording medium fed by the feeding unit; a derivation unit that derives a fluctuation amount range of droplet speed of each droplet commencing with a second droplet relative to droplet speed of a first droplet as a range satisfying set image quality when continuous ejection of droplets are performed by the ejection unit so that the droplets are ejected continuously in different positions on the recording medium in a feeding direction of the recording medium within a range higher than an upper limit value of predetermined image formation speed but lower than limit image formation speed; and a control unit that performs control on the feeding unit and the ejection unit so as to form an image on the recording medium at image formation speed within a range determined in accordance with the range derived by the derivation unit.