Patent ID: 6754455
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with an electrophotographic method, said apparatus comprising:storage means for storing image data; image processing means for performing image processing on the image data stored in said storage means; and image formation means for forming the image using developer, wherein the formed image is based on the image data processed by said image processing means, wherein said image processing means includes developer consumption amount calculation means for generating information indicating a predicted amount of developer consumed by said image formation means, based on the image data processed by said image processing means, wherein said image formation means supplies developer in correspondence with the information generated by said developer consumption amount calculation means, wherein said image processing means changes the image processing on the image data based on whether the image data represents a tonality-oriented image or a resolution-oriented image, and wherein said developer consumption amount calculation means corrects the generated information in correspondence with an executed image processing.