TRANSPARENT TONER PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TRANSPARENT TONER PROCESSING METHOD, AND TRANSPARENT TONER PROCESSING PROGRAM

• Main Authors: NAKANO MUNENORI, TOYOFUKU KATSUYA, TSUTSUMI TAKANORI, UCHIKI SHIGEKI, TSURU KENJI, HIROTA SO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 22.09.2023
• 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 decrease the glossiness of an edge part to make inconspicuous the difference in level of glossiness.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 1 comprises: an image forming unit 20T that forms a transparent toner image on a recording medium; and a transparent toner processing section 131 that performs processing of placing transparent toner on an edge part of an image area of a toner image on a printing sheet. In the printing sheet having the transparent toner placed thereon by the image forming unit 20T, the transparent toner is placed from the edge part of the image area, and the number of dots at the edges of a transparent toner area and a non-image area is reduced compared with the other areas.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】エッジ部分の光沢をぼかして光沢段差を目立たなくする。【解決手段】画像形成装置１は、透明トナー像を記録媒体に形成する画像形成ユニット２０Ｔと、印刷用紙上のトナー像の画像領域のエッジ部分に透明トナーを載せるための処理を行う透明トナー処理部１３１を備え、画像形成ユニット２０Ｔが透明トナーを載せた印刷用紙は、画像領域のエッジ部分から透明トナーが載せられており、透明トナー領域と非画像領域とのエッジのドット数が、その他の領域よりも減らされている。【選択図】図１