JPH0795200B2 - Image forming device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus that reproduces image data.

[Conventional technology]

The sensitivity of the photoconductor changes with time or due to changes in environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity. In particular, in the method of modulating one pixel with a predetermined area ratio, there is a gap between the point at which the laser emits light and the time until the light emission stops, so the area ratio at which light emission and the area ratio at which light emission stops are determined and controlled in advance. It was Point V _{00 at} which the photoconductor potential at that time starts to emit light
Conventionally, when the stop point is V _FF , there has been a phenomenon that the potential curve changes with time as shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 13, the vertical axis represents the surface potential, the horizontal axis represents the grid voltage VG for controlling the potential, and the surface potential V ₀₀
Curve changes from A to B with time, the curve of V _FF changes from C to D, so it is necessary to change the grid voltage from 700 V to 1000 V in order to obtain the same V _C = (V ₀₀ −V _FF ) = 420 V. However, it was difficult to change the high voltage unit from 200V to 1000V for control without error.

On the other hand, the developing device has different developing ability depending on the environment, and in particular, the image density may change depending on the humidity, so that an image having an appropriate density may not be obtained.

〔Purpose〕

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus capable of forming an image with good floor adjustment irrespective of changes in environmental conditions, aging of a recording material, and the like. To provide.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Explanation of Block Diagram of Color Copier (FIG. 1)] FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the color copier of this embodiment.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a sync signal processing unit which, based on a signal from a BD (beam detector) detector 20 of the printer unit 200, synchronizes various timing signals with a horizontal sync signal 22 output from a gradation control circuit 21. create. Reference numeral 2 is a contact type CCD sensor block, which reads a document according to the reader horizontal synchronizing signal (RHSYNC) and the driving signal 4 generated by the synchronizing signal processing unit 1 and converts the image signal into an electric signal and outputs it. A signal processing unit 3 performs a waveform shaping process in order to prevent attenuation of high frequency components of the electric signal 5.

Reference numeral 6 is an image processing block. The image signal from the signal processing unit 3 is first input to the analog processing unit 7. In the analog processing unit 7, the signal from the contact CCD sensor block 2 is 1
Since cyan (C), green (G), and yellow (Y) signals are sequentially output for each pixel, the C, G, and Y colors are first separated. Next, since the developing devices of the printer unit 200 correspond to yellow (Y), magenta (M), and cyan (C), the image signals are first red (R), green (G), and blue (B).
Convert to signal. This is performed by arithmetic processing according to the formulas C-G = B and Y-G = R. Further, since the output voltage of the signals separated into R, G, and B changes linearly with respect to the density, they are converted into 8-bit density signals by the A / D converter. The above processing is executed by the analog processing unit 7.

The image signal for each color digitized by the analog processing unit 7 is divided into 5 channels and the video signals of the respective channels are not synchronized, so that one image data is stored in the connection memory 8. Is synthesized. The image data synthesized by the connection memory 8 and converted into the YMC signal is synchronized for each color with an image processing unit (IPU) 9
Sent to. The IPU9 performs a shading process for correcting the light distribution, a masking process for correcting the tint, and the like. Further, a desired color signal is selected by the control unit 10 of the reader unit 100, and is sent to the printer unit 200 from the IPU 9 through the 8-bit image data 11 on which a predetermined color conversion process has been performed.

On the other hand, in addition to the image signal, the control unit 10 drives the motor driver 13 for manipulating the document to control the rotation of the motor 12. In addition, the CVR 15 and the copy key for controlling the lighting of the exposure lamp 14 and the operation unit 16 for performing other operations are also controlled.

Here, the letters are sharp, and the photographs have gradation,
Although not shown, it has a switching mode SW, and the control unit 10 fetches it as information of the operation unit 16 and sends it to the printer.

On the other hand, the control unit of the printer controls the selector of the binarization circuit described later by the signal from the CPU 25-1.

The image data 11 output from the reader unit 100 is input to the gradation control circuit 21 of the printer unit 200. Gradation control circuit 21
Since the image clock of the reader unit 100 and the image clock of the printer unit 200 have different speeds, they have a function of synchronizing them and a function of making the image data correspond to the color reproduction density of the printer unit 200. Output data from the gradation control circuit 21 is input to a laser driver 22 and a laser 23 is driven to form an image.

The control unit 25 of the printer unit, which communicates with the reader unit 100 via the communication control line 24, controls each control element of the printer unit 200. Reference numeral 26 is a potential sensor for detecting the electric charge charged on the photoconductor 29, and 27 is a potential measuring unit for converting the output from the potential sensor 26 into a digital signal and inputting it to the control unit 25. The potential data input to the control unit 25 is read by the CPU 25-1 of the control unit 25 and used for control.
On the other hand, a signal from the sensor 28 for detecting the image leading edge signal (ITOP) is input to the control unit 25 and used for control. Further, the humidity sensor 98 and the temperature sensor 99 for correcting the developing characteristics are input through the A / D converter 25-3 of the controller 25. As shown in FIG. 17, the humidity sensor 98 in this embodiment has a characteristic that it changes with temperature when the vertical axis is resistance and the horizontal axis is absolute humidity. Therefore, the ratio of the saturated amount at each temperature and the relative humidity ΔH are represented by ΔH = f (T, H) T = temperature, H = humidity sensor value. Usually, the f function is represented by a cubic expression. These T and H are converted into A / D by the temperature sensor 99 and the humidity sensor 98 by the control unit 25-3, and the relative humidity is calculated.

Then, the control described later is performed according to the obtained relative humidity.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a copying machine using the contact type color CCD sensor of this embodiment.

The copying apparatus 80 includes a reader unit 100 and a printer unit 200. Reference numeral 83 denotes a document scanning unit, which moves and scans in the direction of arrow A to read the image of the document 84 on the document table, and at the same time, the exposure lamp 85 in the document scanning unit 83 is turned on. The reflected light from the document is guided to the converging rod lens array 86 and is condensed on the contact color CCD sensor 87. The contact color CCD sensor 87 is 62.5 μm (1/16 m
m) as one pixel, and 1024 pixel chips are arranged in a staggered pattern of 5 chips, and each pixel is 3 in 15.5 μm x 62.5 μm.
It is divided and C, G, and Y color filters are attached to each.

The optical image focused on the contact color CCD sensor 87 is converted into an electrical signal for each color. These electric signals are subjected to a predetermined process described later by the processing block 88. The color separated image electrical signal formed by the image processing block 88 is transmitted to the printer 200 and printed.

The color image data from the reader unit 100 is subjected to PWM processing and the like to finally drive the laser. The laser light modulated according to the image data is scanned at high speed by the polygon mirror 89 rotating at high speed, reflected by the mirror 90, and the surface of the photosensitive drum 91 is subjected to dot exposure corresponding to the image. One horizontal scan of the laser beam corresponds to one horizontal scan of the image, and has a width of 1/16 mm in this embodiment. On the other hand, since the photosensitive drum 91 is rotating at a constant speed in the arrow direction, the planar image is successively exposed by the above-mentioned laser beam scanning in the main scanning direction and the constant speed rotation of the photosensitive drum 91 in the sub-scanning direction. The photosensitive drum 91 is uniformly charged by the charger 97 prior to exposure, and forms a latent image by being exposed to the charged photoconductor. A latent image formed by a predetermined color signal is visualized by developing devices 92 to 95 corresponding to a predetermined color.

Considering, for example, the first original exposure scanning in the color reader, first, the dot image of the yellow component of the original is exposed on the photosensitive drum 91, and the original image is formed by the yellow original imager 92. Next, the yellow image is formed on the paper wound on the transfer drum 96 by the photosensitive drum 91.
A yellow toner image is transferred and formed by the transfer charger 98 at the contact point between the transfer drum 96 and the transfer drum 96. By repeating the same process for M (magenta), C (cyan), and Bk (black), and superimposing each image on the paper, 4
A color image is formed by the color toner.

At this time, the characteristics of the original image forming agent of each original image forming device differ depending on the humidity condition, so that the image density with respect to the humidity when printed under the same image forming condition is as shown in FIG. Also, the image density with respect to the surface potential of the photosensitive drum using humidity as a parameter is as shown in FIG.

Therefore, the required target potential is different from V _C2 , V _C1 , and V _C0 for relative humidity of 80%, 50%, and 20% if D ₀ is fixed.
(V _C = 150 V, V _C1 = 240 V, V _C0 = 300 V in this embodiment) On the other hand, in the potential characteristics of the photoconductor of FIG. 13, when the voltage is 250 V or more, the grid voltage becomes high and the control accuracy cannot be obtained. Therefore, it is necessary to switch the laser power. Therefore, in this embodiment, control is performed so that the laser power is switched at a humidity of 50% or less.

[Description of Gradation Control Circuit (FIGS. 2 and 3)] FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the gradation control circuit 21.

The 8-bit image data 11 output from the IPU 9 of the reader unit 100 is input to the buffer memory 30 in synchronization with the synchronization signal RHSYNC from the synchronization signal processing unit 1 and the image clock RCLK. The image data stored in the buffer memory 30 is
The data is read from the buffer memory in synchronization with the HSYNC and CLK signals 32 from the synchronization control unit 31. As a result, synchronization deviation and speed conversion between the reader unit 100 and the printer unit 200 are performed, and output to the selector 33.

The selection signal 34 from the CPU 25-1 of the control unit 25 is transmitted to the selector 33.
When the A input is selected, the image data is input to the address of the look-up table RAM (LUTRAM) 38. At this time, when the CPU 25-1 reads the LUTRAM 38 by the control signal 36, the LUTRAM 38 outputs the data corresponding to the address input. The output data is output to the selector 39 and input to the next selector 40 by the selection signal 34 described above.
When the selection signal 42 of the selector 40 selects the A input, D /
It is output to the A converter 41 and converted into an analog signal.

The image signal 41-1 converted into analog is binarized by the binarization circuit 44. A concrete example of the binarization circuit 44 is shown in FIG. The triangular wave generation circuit 44-1 generates a triangular wave based on the CLK signal 51 output from the synchronization control unit 31, and the gain,
The offset level is adjusted by the volumes indicated by 44-3 and 44-5, respectively, and the comparator 44-6 compares it with the analog image signal 44-1 to perform pulse width modulation (PWM modulation) on the selector 44-25. To enter.

The relationship between the output pulse width and the laser emission light amount has the characteristics shown in FIG. 14-2. Image data 00 _{H to} FF _F
By (hexadecimal), in order to use the linear part of this characteristic curve as widely as possible, 00 _H of the image data becomes the power when the curve starts to become linear, and FF _H of the image data deviates from the linear Use the device that can measure the light energy in the optical path so that the power becomes the power at the last time, and manually adjust the above-mentioned gain and offset volume.

However, when the laser power is switched, which will be described later, the laser starts emitting light from the point where it exceeds a predetermined threshold current, so even if the same pulse is given as shown in Figure 14-1, the laser current will differ The amount of laser light is different. Therefore, regarding the relationship between the pulse width and the light quantity given to the laser driver 22 when the laser power is switched, the above-mentioned linear region changes like the curves shown in FIG. 14-2. Here, the curve is when the laser power is high, and the curve is when the laser power is low.

Therefore, in order to obtain the same image density for the same image data even if the laser light amount is changed, it is necessary to change the pulse width along with the switching of the laser light amount. This is achieved by having a binarization circuit. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG.
Although a plurality of digitizing circuits are provided, a plurality of circuits for controlling the gain and the offset level may be provided and switched.

Further, the 3CLK signal 52 having a different synchronization from the CLK signal 51 output from the synchronization control unit 31 also has a plurality of binarization circuits in accordance with the switching of the laser power. The selector 44-25 switches and outputs a plurality of pulse width modulated binarized image signals according to the signal of the CPU 25-1.

The image signal pulse-width modulated by the binarization circuit 44 is OR
It is output to the laser driver 22 through the circuit 45 and the AND circuit 46.

FIG. 15 shows details of the laser driver 22. Here, according to the information determined by the control unit 25, the analog SW22-7
Operates to change the constant current value supplied to the laser 23. Further description will be given below.

The signal sent from the AND circuit 46 of the gradation control circuit 21 is input to one transistor 22-2 of the differential circuit via the buffer 22-1 inside the laser driver 22. The other transistor 22-3 is for driving the laser 23. On the other hand, there is a transistor 22-4 that supplies the constant current of both transistors. In the operational amplifier 22-5, the signal supplied from the constant voltage source 22-6 is to the + side,
The voltage applied to the resistor R5 for observing the current of 22-4 is −
A voltage for supplying a predetermined current to the transistor 22-4 is supplied to the transistor 22-4. On the other hand, the voltage supplied to the + side of the operational amplifier 22-5 is changed by the analog SW22-7 operated by the buffer 22-8 which receives the I / O signal from the control section 25, and the low current value is changed to change the laser. The current supplied to 23 changes.

The analog switch is provided to prevent damage to the semiconductor laser because the output of the operational amplifier + input rises if there is an open state even for a moment when the voltage is switched to another point and the current is not limited. This is because.

Next, the blanking signal 48 from the synchronization control unit 31 is a signal for turning on the laser 23 in the BD detection unit in order to detect BD. The signal 49 is output from the CPU 25-1,
This is an inhibit signal of the laser 23 and is used to prevent deterioration of the life of the laser 23.

A pattern generator 50 outputs a predetermined pattern for checking the image signal. The pattern generator 50 supplies the transfer drum synchronization signal ITOP and the horizontal synchronization signal H of the printer unit 200.
SYNC and control signals from the CPU 25-1 are input. When outputting the pattern signal, the CPU 25-1 switches the selection signal 42 of the selector 40 to the B input, outputs the data from the pattern generator 50 to the D / A converter 41, and checks the image signal.

Based on the reference clock of the crystal oscillator, the synchronization control unit 31 outputs either CLK51 or 3CLK52 as a triangular wave generation clock according to the instruction of the CPU 25-1, and the B detector outputs B.
Input the D signal to output the blanking signal 48 and the printer unit 200.
The horizontal synchronizing signal HSYNC and the image clock CLK are output. The binarization circuit 44 uses CLK5 based on the input clock.
A binary signal 47 synchronized with 1 or 3 CLK52 is output.

FIG. 3 is a timing chart showing the timing of these BD signal, blanking signal 48 and the like.

A clock having a cycle twice or more that of the image clock is input to the synchronization control unit 31 from the crystal oscillator, and BD signal and HSYNC and CLK synchronized with the clock are output. The blanking signal 48 is generated by a counter that resets at the trailing edge of the BD signal and measures a time shorter than the BD signal cycle.

[Description of Operation of Reader Unit (FIG. 4)] FIG. 4 shows an operation flow chart of the CPU 10-1 of the control unit 10 of the reader unit 100. This program is a ROM 10-2.
Is built into.

When the power of the reader unit 100 is turned on, first, an initial display routine is executed in step S1. This is the check of each I / O, the initialization of the RAM 10-3, and the movement processing of the original scanning start point. At step S2, it is checked whether the reader unit 100 is connected to the printer unit 200. At step S3, it is checked whether the print switch of the operation unit 16 has been pressed. When the switch is pressed, the process proceeds to step S4 to output a print-on command to the printer unit 200. In step S5, the printer section 200 waits for the input of the IPOP signal, and when the ITOP signal is input, in step S6, the image is scanned in the designated color mode and the video signal is output to the printer section 200.

[Description of Operation of Printer Unit (FIG. 5)] FIG. 5 is a flow chart of a processing program by the connection unit 25 of the printer unit 200, and this program is stored in the ROM 25-2.

When the power of the program unit 200 is turned on, the initial routine is executed in step S10. Here, initial operations such as checking each I / O, initializing RAM, and removing drum potential of the machine body are performed. In step S11, the connection with the reader unit 100 is checked, and if the connection is confirmed, the process proceeds to step S12 to check whether the heater of the fixing unit has reached a predetermined temperature (whether warm-up is completed). When the warm-up is completed, the process proceeds to step S13, and it is determined whether there is a print instruction from the reader unit 100. When a print instruction is input, the PGO which will be described later in step S14 (S14-1 to S14-4).
N Perform processing. PGON processing is performed corresponding to the laser power and the clock used to generate the triangular wave.

In step S15, as will be described later, based on the result of step S14, the humidity data and the character photograph information (CL
The write data of the LUTRAM38 is calculated according to (data for selecting K or 3CLK), and is written in the LUTRAM38 in step S16.
This selects the B input of the selector 33 by the selection signal 34,
On the other hand, by the selector 39, the data bus 36 of the CPU 25-1
Connected to the data input of RAM38. Here, the CPU 25-1 outputs the address of the LUTRAM 38 to the address bus 35, the write data to the data bus 37, and inputs the write pulse by the control signal 36 to write to the LUTRAM 38.

In step S17, it is checked whether or not the writing to the LUTRAM 38 is completed. When the writing is completed, in step S18, the ITOP signal is output to the reader unit 100. As a result, the reader unit 100 of FIG.
In the program flow chart, the control shifts from step S5 to step S6. The designated color mode is executed in step S19. In that case, it goes without saying that the LUT is performed by switching the selector for each color. Next, the printing operation is performed at steps S19 and S20, and when one color image is formed and the color mode is finished, the process returns to step S11.

[Explanation of PGON processing (FIGS. 6 and 7)] The PGON processing of steps S14-1 to S14-4 is the same except that the laser power used and the clock used for generating the triangular wave are different. Therefore, it will be collectively described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart of the PGON process of step S14 of FIG. 5, that is, the process of driving the pattern generator 50 to output a predetermined pattern and read the surface potential of the photosensitive drum.

In step S30, in order to input the data from the pattern generator 50 to the D / A converter 41, B of the selector 40 is selected by the selection signal 42.
Select an input. In step S31, the pattern generator 50
The electric potential generated on the photosensitive member 29 by the laser light emitted based on the data output by, for example, "00" is input through the electric potential measuring unit 27. It is assumed that the binarization circuit 44 is preset so that the limit pulse emitted by the laser is generated by the comparator 43 when the input of the D / A converter 41 is "0". This allows the laser driver
22 and the laser 23 irradiate the photoconductor 29 with uniform light.

In step S31, the pattern generator 50 outputs "FF" in hexadecimal.
When the data is output, the binarization circuit 44 is set in advance so that the laser 23 is generated in a cycle shorter than the cycle of the triangular wave, that is, the dots can be accurately reproduced. Read the potential corresponding to FF ".

In step S32, the target surface potential of V _C for giving a predetermined concentration is obtained according to the detected humidity, and the read potential V ₀₀ corresponding to the data “00” and “FF” from the pattern generator 50, _Find the difference in V _FF and see if the difference reaches a given value. When the value is not the predetermined value, the process proceeds to step S33, 97 in FIG.
The primary high voltage is changed and the process returns to step S31 to check.

Here, a command is sent to the laser drive circuit to decrease the laser power if the difference voltage V _C between V ₀₀ and V _FF is less than or equal to a predetermined value and increase the laser power if it is more than the predetermined value.

When the difference reaches a predetermined value in step S32, the process proceeds to step S34,
Turn on the pattern generator 50. As a result, the pattern generator 50 starts to operate as an m-ary counter of HSYNC in synchronization with ITOP, and sequentially outputs data obtained by dividing the data "00" to "FF" into a predetermined number of stages m. This data is input to the D / A converter 41 through the selector 40, becomes an analog signal, and drives the laser 23. The potentials of the photoconductor 29, which are generated by this in steps S35 and S36 and change in m steps, are read and sequentially stored corresponding to the output data of the pattern generator 50. In this embodiment, m = 16.

Fig. 7 shows input data of D / A converter 41 and potential measurement unit 2
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a relationship with a voltage value from 7.

The photoconductor 29 is negatively charged, and its potential rises when it is irradiated with laser light. Correspondingly, the negatively charged color toners adhere. In the figure, V _DD indicates the charge level when no laser is generated, and V _L indicates the charge level when all the laser is generated.

In this embodiment, the PGON process is always performed for all the laser powers and the clocks for generating the triangular wave before the copy sequence. However, the timer means performs the PGON process at a certain time interval or performs a predetermined number of copy operations. It may be performed every time it is performed. Further, it may be performed only for the selected laser power and the clock for generating the triangular wave.

Furthermore, a dedicated sequence for only the PGON processing may be provided, measurement values may be stored, and the LUT may be created using the data stored during the normal copy sequence.

[Description of Step 21 LUT Creation Processing (FIG. 12)] FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the output image density with respect to the input image signal. The first quadrant is the relationship between the output density D and the input level e. The second quadrant is the input level e. Relationship between conversion level E (LUT) The third quadrant is the relationship between the conversion level E and the potential V measured by the potential sensor (EV curve) The fourth quadrant is the relationship between the measured potential V and the output density D (VD curve). V = the measurement potential V and the output density D (measured values -V _FF by potential _{sensor) / (V 00 -V FF)} D = ( concentration / maximum _{density) × "FF" V 00;} "00" at the output Measured value by potential sensor V _FF : Measured value by potential sensor when “FF” is output.

Here, as the VD curve, a plurality of types of curves are preset according to the developer and the laser power used and the clock (CLK signal 51, 3LK signal 52) used for generating the triangular wave of the binarization circuit 44 in FIG. Set it in ROM25-2 and select from it to use.

Also, since the EV curve has almost linear characteristics,
At the time of PG operation during potential measurement (step S34 in FIG. 6), a table corresponding to the selected VD curve (a table in which the x-axis and the y-axis of the VD curve are reversed) is written in LUTRAM38, and this table is stored in advance. Measurement is performed using the data converted by LUTRAM. The data to be written in the LUTRAM 38 may be set in the ROM in advance and used.

In order to make the output density D have a linear characteristic with respect to the input level e, the conversion level at the PG output level ei is E _i , the measured potential at that time is V _i , and the LUT is measured by the VD curve. If the density is D _i when the potential is V _i , the LUT data is created so that the conversion level is E _i when the input level ei is D _i . In this embodiment, PG output is 1
Since 6 steps are performed, 16 pieces of LUT data are created, and LUT data from "00" to "FF" is completed from this data by line approximation.

In this embodiment, the RAM is used as the lookup table, but a ROM in which a plurality of data groups are written in advance is used, and a more appropriate data than the data stored in the ROM is calculated from the calculation result of the CPU. May be selected.

As described above, according to this embodiment, a stable image can be obtained because the relationship between the potential on the photoconductor and the image data is fixed and the developer characteristics are taken into consideration. Further, in the case of a color image, since variations in color can be prevented, there is an effect that an image with no change in tint can always be obtained.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to stably reproduce an image.

[Brief description of drawings]

1A and 1B are block diagrams of the color copying machine of this embodiment. Figure 2 is a block diagram of the gradation control circuit. FIG. 3 is a timing chart of each signal of the synchronous control block. FIG. 4 is an operation flow chart of the control unit in the reader unit. FIG. 5 is an operation flow chart of the control unit in the printer unit. FIG. 6 is a flow chart of the data output and potential reading processing of the pattern generator. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the relationship between the data of the pattern generator and the potential of the photoconductor. FIG. 8 is a sectional view of the color copying machine. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the relationship between humidity and image density when printed under the same image forming conditions. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the relationship between the image density and the surface potential of the photosensitive drum when printing is performed under the same image forming conditions. FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the relationship of the concentration data with respect to the measurement data of the potential sensor, which is previously set in the ROM. FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the relationship between the output image density and the input image signal. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the relationship between the surface potential of the photoconductor and the control voltage and the change in potential with time. FIG. 14-1 is a diagram showing a relationship between laser power and an emission waveform,
Figure 14-2 is a diagram showing the pulse width of the binarized output and the amount of light emitted from the laser. FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a detailed view of the laser driver 22. FIG. 16 is a detailed diagram of the binarization circuit 44. FIG. 17 is a diagram showing the characteristics of the humidity sensor. In the figure, 1 ... Synchronous signal processing unit, 2 ... Contact CCD sensor block, 3 ... Signal processing unit, 7 ... Analog processing unit, 8 ...
Connection memory, 9 ... IPU, 10 ... control unit, 11 ... image data, 16 ... operation unit, 20 ... BD detector, 21 ... gradation control circuit, 22 ... laser driver, 23 ... Laser, 25 ……
Control unit, 26 ... Potential sensor, 27 ... Potential measuring unit,
29 …… photoreceptor, 30 …… buffer memory, 31 …… sync controller, 33,39,40 …… selector, 38 …… lookup table RAM (LUTRAM), 41 …… D / A converter, 43 …… Comparator, 44 …… Triangle wave generator, 50 …… Pattern generator, 100
... reader section, 200 ... printer section.

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A conversion means for converting input digital image data according to conversion information, a plurality of output means for performing different processings on the converted image data and outputting as an image signal, and recording based on the image signal. Optical means for forming an image on the body, switching means for switching the energy of the optical means, selecting means for selecting a predetermined output means from the plurality of output means, switching of the switching means, and the An image forming apparatus comprising: a setting unit that sets a conversion characteristic of the conversion unit according to selection by the selection unit. 2. The switching means has monitor means for measuring environmental conditions, and switches the energy of the optical means according to the output of the monitor means. Image forming apparatus.