APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORMING AN IMAGE ON A MEDIUM USING A PLURALITY OF ERASABLE MATERIALS

摘要

An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a first image forming section configured to form an image on a recording medium with a non-erasable material, and a second image forming section configured to form an image on the recording medium with an erasable material. The image forming apparatus further comprises a control section configured to separate image data according to attributes of the image data into first image data to be printed on the recording medium in the first image forming section and second image data to be printed on the recording medium in the second image forming section.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a first image forming unit configured to perform image forming on a medium with a first erasable material having a first erasing temperature; a second image forming unit configured to perform image forming on the medium with a second erasable material having a second erasing temperature that is different from the first erasing temperature; and a control unit configured to classify each portion of image data corresponding to an image to be printed, into a plurality of image data groups including a first image data group for the image forming by the first image forming unit and a second image data group for the image forming by the second image forming unit, according to an attribute of each portion of the image data.