IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL PROGRAM

• Main Author: ASO HIROSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 06.06.2019
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide an image forming apparatus, an image formation control method, and an image formation program that can improve the accuracy in alignment in a post process of foil image formation and reduce a cost required in the post process.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus comprises: an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet; and a control unit that controls the image forming unit to form, on the sheet, a first image to which a foil is transferred in a predetermined process, and to form, on the sheet, a second image to which a foil is not transferred in the predetermined process and is used for alignment when predetermined processing is performed on the first image in a post process of the predetermined process.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9 【課題】箔画像形成の後工程における位置合わせの精度を向上させ、かつ、当該後工程においてかかるコストを低減することが可能な画像形成装置、画像形成制御方法および画像形成プログラムを提供する。【解決手段】画像形成装置は、シートに画像を形成する画像形成部、および、所定工程で箔が転写される第１画像をシートに形成するように画像形成部を制御し、所定工程で箔が転写されず、かつ、所定工程の後工程で第１画像に所定処理をする際の位置合わせに用いられる第２画像をシートに形成するように画像形成部を制御する制御部、を備える。【選択図】図９