Color image forming apparatus using inks of plural densities

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PATENT NO 6130686
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08974509

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A color image forming apparatus includes an image signal input portion which supplies three image signals C, M and Y associated with cyan, magenta and yellow; an image signal conversion processing portion which converts the image signals C, M and Y into six image signals associated with thick C and thin C, thick M and thin M, and thick Y and thin Y, respectively, by using a thick/thin sorting table; and a color masking processing portion which performs color masking process, and outputs converted six image signals associated with thick C to thin Y. The converted six image signals undergo a black generation process, a UCR process and a black printing process, and a binarization processing thereafter. This makes it possible to produce color images of high quality with high reproducibility even if the hues of N color materials, which belong to the same color family and have different densities, such as thin cyan and thick cyan, differ from each other to some extent.

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  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Danzuka, Toshimitsu Tokyo, JP 86 729
Fukushima, Hisashi Kawasaki, JP 64 1148
Miura, Yasushi Kawasaki, JP 91 1794
Moriguchi, Haruhiko Yokohama, JP 94 1747
Suzuki, Akio Yokohama, JP 254 3301

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