Image formation system also serving as MICR printer

摘要

An image formation system also serving as an MICR printer including a cartridge mount space for detachably mounting a process cartridge having an image support, a developing roll and a collection vessel, an optical writer ROS for forming an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image support by a light beam of a predetermined light quantity, and a parameter change system having parameter storage means Me for storing image formation process parameters used when the process cartridge mounted in the cartridge mount space is a normal cartridge and when the process cartridge is an MICR cartridge for forming a ferromagnetic toner image that can be magnetically read, the parameter change system for setting the image formation process parameters in response to the type of process cartridge mounted in the cartridge mount space.