Patent US 5,495,348

The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and a method of forming an image by separating color information into two or more color information items. The boundary of images is compensated, the images being the images formed by an analog recording system for forming an image on a recording medium by removing a predetermined color component from an original document image and a digital recording system for forming an image on said recording medium by extracting a predetermined color component from said original document image. Therefore, if a slight positional deviation takes place between images formed by the analog recording system and the digital recording system, a want of color information can be prevented. Therefore, the deviation can be satisfactorily compensated so that an original image can be correctly reproduced.