IMAGE FORMING CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING CONTROL METHOD

摘要

An image forming control device and an image forming control method control an image forming apparatus that forms an image at every scanning line. The image forming control device includes a pixel data generation controller and an image forming mechanism controller. The pixel data generation controller receives data of an image to be formed and an instruction for image formation, and generates image data to be input to an image forming mechanism that forms an image on a recording medium. The pixel data includes data of each pixel that makes up the image to be formed. The image forming mechanism controller controls image formation performed by the image forming mechanism according to the generated pixel data.

主权项

1. An image forming control device that controls an image forming apparatus that forms an image at every scanning line, the image forming control device comprising:
a pixel data generation controller configured to receive data of an image to be formed and an instruction for image formation, and to generate pixel data to be input to an image forming mechanism that forms an image on a recording medium, the pixel data including data of each pixel that makes up the image to be formed; and an image forming mechanism controller configured to control image formation performed by the image forming mechanism according to the generated pixel data, wherein the pixel data generation controller includes:
a page memory configured to hold the pixel data in pages of the image to be formed; anda pixel data output unit configured to read and output the pixel data stored in the page memory upon shifting a main scanning line from which a pixel is read at a specified position on the main scanning line to a sub scanning direction to correct the image skew, based on information related to image skew caused by a state in which the image forming mechanism is installed.