Image forming apparatus with glossiness detection
US6088546A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 2, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jul 11, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 2, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/00949
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material in response to an image on a document. The apparatus also has a glossiness detection device for detecting from the document the level of glossiness of the document image. The image forming device is controlled based on an output from the glossiness detection device. With this construction, the level of glossiness in response to the document image can be reproduced on the recording material, thus improving the quality of reproduced images.
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