| 摘要 |
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a plurality of image forming units, an image density detection unit, an image density comparison unit, a control unit, a developer residual amount acquisition unit, and an image stabilization kind determination unit. The plurality of image forming units include at least a developer of a first color and a developer of a second color and form a predetermined pattern image on the image holding member using the developers of the first and second colors. The developer residual amount acquisition unit acquires a residual amount of the developer of the second color. The image stabilization kind determination unit switches control of an image to image stabilization control of forming the pattern image to be formed on the image holding member using only the developer of the first color if the residual amount of the developer of the second color acquired by the developer residual amount acquisition unit is below a threshold value defined in advance.
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