Patent ID: 7903279
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: G03G,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier which carries an image formed by a developing material; an adjustment part which performs at least one of adjustment operations for an image formation position and an image formation density by forming an adjustment pattern using a developing material on said image carrier and measuring the adjustment pattern; a specifying part which, in case of executing a job which requires post processing for an image-formed sheet, specifies a size of an image to be formed on the image-formed sheet and a content of the post processing; and a control part which controls whether to perform the adjustment operation by said adjustment part concurrently with formation of an image made from the job requiring the post processing, in accordance with the specified size of the image and the specified content of the post processing; wherein said control part further comprises a decision part which decides, in accordance with the specified size of the image and the specified content of the post processing, whether processing of forming, on said image carrier, an image made from a job requiring post processing for the image-formed sheet, can be executed concurrently with adjustment operation by said adjustment part, and wherein said control part operates said adjustment part concurrently with formation of the image made from the job requiring the post processing, or forms an image without operating said adjustment part, on the basis of a decision result obtained by said decision part.