Patent ID: 8705991
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming device configured to form a plurality of primary color toner images with toner of a plurality of primary colors on a latent image carrier based on input image information, and transfer the plurality of primary color toner images, directly or indirectly, from the latent image carrier to a recording sheet one above the other to form a multi-color toner image on the recording sheet; a measuring device configured to measure multi-colors of the multi-color toner image formed on the recording sheet to obtain multi-color information indicating the measured colors of the multi-color toner image; and a controller configured to: correct parameters of the image forming device that affect an image forming condition of each of the plurality of primary color toner images, based on the estimated primary color information; a storage device configured to store, for each of the plurality of primary colors, association information indicating association between a plurality of halftone ratios and a plurality of spectral reflectance distributions each obtained from a primary color toner image formed with the corresponding halftone ratio, wherein the controller is further configured to: