Patent ID: 9082006
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: B42C,G03G,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet based upon image data; and a control section which controls image formation at the image forming section; wherein the image forming apparatus is constituted to be connectable to a reading apparatus which is located downstream from the image forming section in a direction in which the sheet is conveyed and reads out the image formed on the sheet by the image forming section based on the image data and to a sheet processing apparatus to apply sheet processing to the sheet on which an image is formed at the image forming section; and wherein the control section is configured to perform the following operations: comparing the image data for image formation on the sheet by the image forming section with read-out image data read by the reading of the image formed on the sheet with the reading apparatus; detecting an existence of an image abnormality on the sheet from a result of the comparison of the image data for the image formation on the sheet by the image forming section with the read-out image data of the image formed on the sheet read by the reading apparatus; and changing a control of an image formation by the image forming section in accordance with the sheet processing executed at the sheet processing apparatus when the image abnormality has been detected.