| 摘要 |
In an image forming apparatus having a discrimination mechanism that identifies an input document image as a color image or a monochrome image and an area recognition mechanism that recognizes a plurality of different areas contained in the document image, the apparatus applies the optimum color image forming mode even if the document is identified as a color image and forms an image. The user is permitted to select either a first color image forming mode that uses recording agents of m colors (where m is a natural number equal to or greater than 4) or a second color image forming mode that uses recording agents of n colors (where n is a natural number equal to or greater than m+1) as a color image forming mode applied to at least one of the areas recognized by the area recognition mechanism. If the input document image is identified as a color image, the apparatus applies the selected color image forming mode to at least one of the areas recognized by the area recognition mechanism and forms an image.
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