IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DECOLORING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

摘要

In one embodiment, an image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium using a plurality of decolorable coloring materials having different decoloring conditions. Further, the image forming apparatus forms a mark relating to authority information indicating authority capable of decoloring one of the plurality of decolorable coloring materials for each of the decolorable coloring materials on the recording medium. Further, in another embodiment, a decoloring apparatus grasps the authority information, and decolors the image of the decolorable coloring material, in accordance with the grasped authority information.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a control unit which generates authority information indicating authority capable of decoloring one of a plurality of decolorable coloring materials, for each of the decolorable coloring materials that are decolored at different prescribed decoloring conditions; and an image forming unit which forms an image on a recording medium using the plurality of decolorable coloring materials, and forms a mark relating to the authority information on the recording medium.