Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a recording material;
• a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image formed on the recording material by the image forming unit to the recording material;
• and
• a controller configured to cause the image forming unit to form an image including a base image and a surface image superimposed on the base image,
• wherein the surface image includes a first halftone image and a second halftone image,
• wherein a first region where the first halftone image is formed and a second region where the second halftone image is formed are exclusive to each other and adjacent to each other,
• wherein the first halftone image is constituted by an anisotropic pattern such that difference between glossiness of the image in the first region and the glossiness of the image in the second region changes depending on a direction in which the image is viewed, and
• wherein difference between density of the image in the first region and the density of the image in the second region is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold value.

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a recording material;
• a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image formed on the recording material by the image forming unit to the recording material;
• and
• a controller configured to cause the image forming unit to form an image on a basis of image information, the controller being configured to cause the image forming unit to form the image in which a first toner image and a second toner image are superimposed on each other on the recording material, the first toner image being a toner image corresponding to the image information, the second toner image being formed from pigmented toner and constituted by a pattern having anisotropy such that glossiness of the image changes depending on a direction in which the image is viewed
• wherein, in the pattern constituting the second toner image, parallel lines extending in the same direction are arranged at a predetermined pitch,
• wherein the controller is configured to change a level of a decorative effect by changing thickness and pitch of the parallel lines constituting the second toner image, and
• wherein the thickness and the pitch of the parallel lines are the same value, and an upper limit of a total of the thickness and the pitch of the parallel lines is 0.84 mm.