US 12,216,949 B2
Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and image forming method
Kazunobu Uchiyama, Kanagawa (JP); Takumi Nishikata, Kanagawa (JP); Eiichi Waida, Kanagawa (JP); and Yusuke Chika, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/712,817.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-157835 (JP), filed on Sep. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0096828 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1242 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1205 (2013.01); G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); H04N 1/0048 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a first processor configured to control a first image former that forms a first image using a color material having a first color composition; and
a second processor configured to control a second image former that forms, using a color material having a second color composition, a second image to be superimposed on the first image,
wherein the first processor is configured to:
if an image formation instruction, including information indicating that the first image and the second image are to be superimposed to each other is received, with a first different image formation instruction being received, the first different image formation instruction having identification information identical to identification information for the image formation instruction;
cause the first image former to form the first image in accordance with a first image formation instruction, corresponding to the first color composition, out of the image formation instruction and the first different image formation instruction, and
transmit to the second processor a second image formation instruction corresponding to the second color composition, and
the second processor is configured to cause the second image former to form the second image in accordance with the second image formation instruction, and
wherein the first processor is configured to:
if the image formation instruction, including the information indicating that the first image and the second image are to be superimposed to each other, is received, with the first different image formation instruction having the identical identification information not being received, while with a second different formation instruction being received, the second different formation instruction having user identification information identical to user identification information that is on a user having transmitted the image formation instruction and is included in the image formation instruction;
cause the first image former to form the first image in accordance with a first image formation instruction, corresponding to the first color composition, out of the image formation instruction and the second different image formation instruction; and
transmit to the second processor a second image formation instruction corresponding to the second color composition, and
the second processor is configured to cause the second image former to form the second image in accordance with the second image formation instruction.