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US 12,754,499 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji Kitami
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a heat source, a fixing belt that is heated by the heat source to thermally fix a color material to each of a plurality of pieces of paper in sequence, an operation acceptor that allows a user to specify a fixation degree of the color material for the plurality of pieces of paper, and one or more controllers that cause each of the plurality of pieces of paper to pass through the fixing belt in sequence at a control paper feed amount which is a paper feed amount per unit time according to the fixation degree.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a heat source;
- a fixing belt that is heated by the heat source to thermally fix a color material to each of a plurality of pieces of paper in sequence;
- an operation acceptor that allows a user to specify a fixation degree, from a plurality of fixation degrees, for fixation of the color material to the plurality of pieces of paper, and to specify a type of paper from a plurality of types of paper;
- and
- one or more controllers that:
- cause each of the plurality of pieces of paper to pass through the fixing belt in sequence at a control paper feed amount of a number of pieces of paper per unit of time, and
- determine the control paper feed amount based on the fixation degree specified by the user and the type of paper specified by the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.