Patent ID: 8310743

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming section to form an image on paper based on image data according to an image forming condition to output the image on the paper; a storage section to store a plurality of correction values corresponding to setting conditions of the image forming condition, the correction values used for correction of density unevenness in a main scanning direction of the image; a density correction section to perform correction of density of each pixel of the image data based on the correction value; a control section to read out the correction value according to a set condition in the image forming condition from the storage section and to allow the density correction section to perform the correction of the density of each pixel of the image data based on the read out correction value; and a notification section to notify notification information, wherein the control section allows the notification section to notify notification information to notify the correction value is not set when the correction value of the image forming condition is not stored in the storage section when allowing the image forming section to form an image on the paper based on the image data according to the image forming condition.