Image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorKiyoshi NAGAMINE
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit which fixes an unfixed toner image retained onto a recording medium by at least heat while moving the recording medium; a setting unit which sets a plurality of levels of fixing condition in the fixing unit in accordance with user's desire; and a changing unit which changes at least one of temperature with which the recording medium is heated by the fixing unit and speed with which the recording medium is moved by the fixing unit, in accordance with the level of fixing condition set by the setting unit.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a fixing unit which fixes an unfixed toner image retained onto a recording medium by at least heat while moving the recording medium;
- a setting unit which sets a plurality of levels of fixing condition in the fixing unit in accordance with user's desire;
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- a changing unit which changes at least one of temperature with which the recording medium is heated by the fixing unit and speed with which the recording medium is moved by the fixing unit, in accordance with the level of fixing condition set by the setting unit.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a fixing unit which fixes an unfixed toner image retained onto a recording medium by at least heat while moving the recording medium;
- a setting unit which sets a plurality of levels of fixing condition in the fixing unit in accordance with user's desire when toner fixability with which the toner image is formed is different from toner fixability set in advance in the fixing unit;
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- a changing unit which changes at least one of temperature with which the recording medium is heated by the fixing unit and speed with which the recording medium is moved by the fixing unit, in accordance with the level of fixing condition set by the setting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.