Image forming apparatus
AssigneesToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorTaizo KIMOTO
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit that fixes an image of a toner using any one of a first toner and a second toner on a recording medium, and a control unit that sets a fixing temperature and a standby temperature of the fixing unit. The control unit sets the fixing temperature when the image of the first toner is fixed, to a first temperature, sets the fixing temperature when the image of the second toner is fixed, to a second temperature lower than the first temperature and sets the standby temperature when the fixing unit is in a standby state, to a temperature closer than the second temperature than the first temperature.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an operation unit configured to receive an instruction of an image forming operation;
- an image forming unit configured to accommodate a first toner and a second toner and form an image of a toner on a recording medium using any one of the first toner and the second toner when the instruction of the image forming operation is received by the operation unit;
- a fixing unit configured to fix the image of the toner formed by the image forming unit on the recording medium at a fixing temperature and wait at a standby temperature when the instruction of the image forming operation is not received by the operation unit;
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- a control unit configured to set the fixing temperature when the image of the first toner is fixed, to a first temperature, set the fixing temperature when the image of the second toner is fixed, to a second temperature lower than the first temperature and set the standby temperature when the fixing unit is in a standby state, to a temperature closer to the second temperature than the first temperature, to control the fixing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.