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US 2006/0133871 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiku Ishida
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Abstract
Using an adhesive toner that is lower in a lower-limit temperature of a fixable temperature than an image forming toner, the image forming toner and the adhesive toner are formed on one and the same transfer material. A document is sealed by an adhesive force of the adhesive toner, at a temperature at which the image forming toner develops no adhesive force.
Claims3
An image forming method comprising:
- forming an image on a recording material using an image forming toner;
- heat fixing the image on the recording material which has been formed using the image forming toner;
- forming an image on the recording material using an adhesive toner that is lower in lower-limit temperature of a fixable temperature than the image forming toner;
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- heat fixing the image on the recording material which has been formed using the adhesive toner.
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