Patent ID: 8382241
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a recording head having nozzles to form an image by squirting droplets onto a recording medium; a transfer member transferring the recording medium and having holes which allows passage of droplets squirted by the recording head for non-printing discharge; an area detecting unit to detect a plurality of non-printing discharge areas that are areas between adjacent recording media; and a non-printing discharge instructing unit to cause the nozzles to perform non-printing discharge such that all the nozzles perform non-printing discharge at least once in the non-printing discharge areas, wherein the area detecting unit detects the non-printing discharge areas based on a size of the recording medium and a speed of the transfer member, wherein the image forming apparatus further comprises: wherein the area detecting unit detects the plurality of non-printing discharge areas based on the size of the print medium indicated by the setting of the setting unit and the speed of the transfer member when a next image is formed.