Patent ID: 8077340
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a read unit which reads a color image from a original; an image processing unit which converts the color image read by the read unit to an image signal for image formation; an image forming unit which performs the image formation on an image forming medium in response to the image signal from the image processing unit; a storage unit which stores a default value of change of an image quality in the image processing unit; an instruction unit which instructs the image processing unit to change the image quality by a series of image formation processing units; a setting process unit which sets the change of the image quality in the image processing unit in accordance with the instruction of the instruction unit and the default value of the change of the image quality of the storage unit; a judgment unit which judges whether or not the default value of the storage unit is changed based on a change state of the image quality and in which predetermined or more number is selected such as three and five times every predetermined number of instructions given by the instruction unit; and a change unit to change the default value of the storage unit based on the change state of the image quality, when the judgment unit judges the change of the default value of the storage unit.