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US 2008/0279601 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Sahara, Takayuki Kato
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Sahara, Takayuki Kato
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An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion which forms a toner image on a sheet; a fixing rotary member pair which fixes the toner image onto the sheet; a reversing rotary member pair capable of performing a refeeding operation in which, in order to form a toner image on another surface of the sheet having one surface on which an image has been formed, the reversing rotary member pair rotates forward and then rotates backward to refeed the sheet toward the image forming portion; and a drive portion which drives the fixing rotary member pair and the reversing rotary member pair by a common drive source, wherein the drive portion can continue to rotate the fixing rotary member pair even when the drive portion stops the refeeding operation of the reversing rotary member pair.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
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