Image forming apparatus for marginless printing

Details Image forming apparatus for marginless printing Image forming apparatus for marginless printing

2011-06-07

2011-06-07

Porta, David P (Department: 2884)

Electrophotography

Control of electrophotography process

Control of transfer

C399S045000, C399S060000, C399S082000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07957659

ABSTRACT:
Provided is an image forming apparatus in which the image forming apparatus has a marginless mode in which the toner image is formed on said image bearing member in an area that covers the recording material and an area outside the recording material, and the toner image is transferred to extend beyond an edge of the recording material carried by said recording material carrying member, the image forming apparatus further including: a detecting device which detects the toner image that extends beyond the edge of the recording material and is transferred to said recording material carrying member in the marginless mode; and a control device which uses a detection result provided by said detecting device to control where said exposure device forms a latent image on said image bearing member.

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