Apparatus for forming image with automated correction of property of regular image without using extra image

摘要

An apparatus for forming an image is disclosed in which an image is formed on an image-formed medium under an image formation condition; a feature of the image formed on the image-formed medium is measured to thereby obtain measurement results which are stored in a storage medium; at least one of the measurement results which conforms to image data representative of a new image to be formed is retrieved as a reference measurement-result from the storage medium; and the image formation condition for the image data representative of the new image is set based on the retrieved reference measurement-result.