Fixing device for setting the glossiness of the toner image
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsChiaki Yamada, Naoki Yoshie, Hirofumi Nakagawa
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Abstract
A fixing device includes: a fixing member that heats a toner image formed on a recording sheet in order to fix the toner image on the recording sheet; a pressurizing member that nips the recording sheet together with the fixing member to pressurize the toner image on the recording sheet; a heater that heats the pressurizing member; and a hardware processor that controls a heating temperature of the pressurizing member by the heater, wherein the hardware processor acquires setting of glossiness of the toner image and controls the heating temperature to be higher as the glossiness in the setting is lower.
Claims9
A fixing device comprising:
- a fixing member that heats a toner image formed on a recording sheet in order to fix the toner image on the recording sheet;
- a pressurizing member that nips the recording sheet together with the fixing member to pressurize the toner image on the recording sheet;
- a heater that heats the pressurizing member;
- and
- a hardware processor that controls a heating temperature of the pressurizing member by the heater, wherein
- the hardware processor acquires a setting of glossiness of the toner image to be formed on the recording sheet, and based on the acquired setting of the glossiness, the hardware processor controls the heating temperature of the pressurizing member, wherein the hardware processor controls the heating temperature in accordance with a thickness of the recording sheet and the glossiness in the setting, and wherein
- toner particles constituting the toner image contain 0.05 to 0.40% of a metal element that ionically crosslinks a binder resin.
A fixing device comprising:
- a fixing member that heats a toner image formed on a recording sheet in order to fix the toner image on the recording sheet;
- a pressurizing member that nips the recording sheet together with the fixing member to pressurize the toner image on the recording sheet;
- a heater that heats the pressurizing member;
- and
- a hardware processor that controls a heating temperature of the pressurizing member by the heater, wherein
- the hardware processor acquires a setting of glossiness of the toner image to be formed on the recording sheet, and based on the acquired setting of the glossiness, the hardware processor controls the heating temperature of the pressurizing member, wherein toner particles constituting the toner image contain 0.05 to 0.40% of a metal element that ionically crosslinks a binder resin.
A method for manufacturing a printed matter in which a toner image is formed on a recording sheet in an image forming device,
- the image forming device including:
- a fixing member and a pressurizing member that nip the recording sheet in order to fix the toner image on the recording sheet;
- and a heater that heats the pressurizing member,
- the method comprising:
- acquiring a setting of glossiness of a toner image to be formed on a recording sheet;
- setting a condition for heating the pressurizing member in accordance with the setting of the glossiness;
- forming the toner image on the recording sheet;
- and
- fixing the toner image on the recording sheet in accordance with the condition using the fixing member and the pressurizing member, wherein
- toner particles constituting the toner image contain 0.05 to 0.40% of a metal element that ionically crosslinks a binder resin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.