摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus of an inkjet system which can form and detect a test pattern while preventing a recording body from being consumed when the test pattern is formed, and while preventing the test pattern from being formed to a recording body carrying member. SOLUTION: An ink ejected from an ejection opening of a head part 10 on the basis of the test pattern is struck on a pattern image formation plate 16 which is a test pattern forming member of a different body from a conveyance belt 14 as the recording body carrying member of a printer 1 as the image forming apparatus. The ink is prevented from being struck on a paper P as the recording body and the conveyance belt 14. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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