Patent ID: 7619790

Claim:
An image forming system including a host computer and an image forming apparatus that forms an image based on image data received from said host computer, said host computer comprising: a storage unit that stores image data; an acquisition unit that acquires, from said image forming apparatus, deformation information indicating how an image formed on a sheet is deformed compared to image data input to said image forming apparatus; an address generation unit that generates read addresses for reading image data stored in said storage unit based on the deformation information; a correction unit that corrects the image data stored in said storage unit based on read addresses generated by said address generation unit; and a transmission unit that transmits the corrected image data to said image forming apparatus, said image forming apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives image data transmitted from said host computer; an image carrier that forms an electrostatic latent image on a surface by sensing light; an exposure unit that exposes said image carrier based on the received image data; a development unit that develops the electrostatic latent image by applying a developing agent to the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier; a transfer unit that forms an image on a sheet by transferring the developing agent image on the image carrier; a setting unit that sets regions in the image data to which tone correction should be applied; and a tone correction unit that applies tone correction to the regions in the image data set by said setting unit.