Image forming apparatus including means for setting image forming condition in accordance with a judgement result

摘要

This invention intends to reduce, in the formation of a color image in consideration of the reproducible color region in the image formation, the time required from the start of image formation to the formation of a reproduced full-color image. This is achieved by judging, by a selection circuit 14, whether the color space of the full-color original is within the color reproduction region of the printer, and setting an image processing condition by the selection circuit 14, according to the result of the judgment, after the image formation of a first color but prior to the image formation of a second color.