Image forming apparatus and image forming method
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorKazuyoshi Kimura
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus may include: a fixer that includes a fixing nip and makes an image formation medium pass through the fixing nip, to apply heat and pressure to the image formation medium, and fix toner containing wax to the image formation medium, an image formed with the toner having been transferred onto the image formation medium; and a hardware processor that controls the fixer in such a manner that an amount of wax precipitating on a surface of the image formation medium, when a laminating process is performed on the image formation medium to which the toner has been fixed, becomes smaller than when the laminating process is not performed.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a fixer that includes a fixing nip and makes an image formation medium pass through the fixing nip, to apply heat and pressure to the image formation medium, and fix toner containing wax to the image formation medium, an image formed with the toner having been transferred onto the image formation medium;
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- a hardware processor that controls the fixer in such a manner that an amount of wax precipitating on a surface of the image formation medium, when a laminating process is performed on the image formation medium to which the toner has been fixed, becomes smaller than when the laminating process is not performed.
An image forming method, comprising:
- transferring an image formed with toner containing wax, onto an image formation medium;
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- fixing the toner to the image formation medium by applying heat and pressure to the image formation medium passing through a fixing nip, the image formed with the toner having been transferred onto the image formation medium,
- wherein, in the fixing, when a laminating process is performed on the image formation medium to which the toner has been fixed, control is performed in such a manner that an amount of wax precipitating on a surface of the image formation medium becomes smaller than when the laminating process is not performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.