Patent ID: 6204932
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprising:an input device that inputs an output mode with respect to how images are to be formed;an image reader that successively reads images from at least one of single-sided documents and both-sided documents, and that produces image data corresponding to the read images;an image processor that processes the image data produced by the image reader;a memory that stores the image data processed by the image processor;a selector that portions out the image data in the memory into first side image data and second side image data in accordance with the output mode input by the input device;an image corrector that conducts a first side correction operation with respect to the first side image data to produce first side output image data, and that conducts a second side correction operation with respect to the second side image data to produce second side output image data, said second side correction operation being different from said first side correction operation;an image carrying member;an intermediate image carrying member;a toner image forming device that forms on the image carrying member a first side toner image based on the first side output image data and a second side toner image based on the second side output image data;a transfer device that: (i) transfers the second side toner image from the image carrying member to the intermediate image carrying member, (ii) transfers the first side toner image from the image carrying member to a first side of a recording sheet, and (iii) transfers the second side toner image from the intermediate image carrying member to a second side of the recording sheet; anda fixing device that fixes the first side toner image and the second side toner image on the recording sheet simultaneously.