Patent ID: 8886107
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a mode determination unit configured to determine a print mode; a fixing temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire fixing temperature information corresponding to the print mode determined by said mode determination unit; an image adjustment unit configured, after the fixing temperature information is acquired by said fixing temperature acquisition unit, to accept an instruction to perform image adjustment corresponding to an adjustment value for image data and to perform image adjustment corresponding to the adjustment value for the image data; an upper-limit value acquisition unit configured to acquire an upper-limit value of a toner amount corresponding to the print mode determined by said mode determination unit; a restriction unit configured to restrict the toner amount to the upper-limit value in case where the toner amount of the image data has exceeded the upper-limit value due to the image adjustment by said image adjustment unit; and a control unit configured to control a fixing temperature of a fixing device in accordance with the fixing temperature information acquired by said fixing temperature acquisition unit before and after the image adjustment is performed by said image adjustment unit.