An image forming apparatus and method.

摘要

It is an object of the invention to stabilize a picture quality by a calibration. In an image forming method using an image forming apparatus having reading means for reading an original and image forming means for forming an image on a medium, a first calibration is manually performed with respect to a system including both of the reading means and the image forming means, and a second calibration is automatically performed with respect to the image forming means solely. <IMAGE>