Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a fuser unit fixing a toner image on a paper sheet, the fuser unit including a fixing rotational member, a heat source heating the fixing rotational member, and a pressing rotational member that is caused to be in contacted with the fixing rotational member with pressure;
• a cleaning means including a belt-shaped cleaning member that is in contact with a surface of the pressing rotational member and thereby cleans the surface of the pressing rotational member, and a drive section that winds the cleaning member;
• an operating section accepting a setting for printing without margin by which an image is formed with the toner image being transferred onto the paper sheet as far as at least one edge portion thereof in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction;
• and
• a control section that controls the drive section in such a manner as to increase a winding quantity of the cleaning member per unit time in a case where the operating section accepts the setting for printing without margin, as compared with a case where the operating section does not accept the setting for printing without margin.

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a fuser unit fixing a toner image on a paper sheet, the fuser unit including a fixing rotational member, a heat source heating the fixing rotational member, and a pressing rotational member that is caused to be in contact with the fixing rotational member with pressure;
• a cleaning means cleaning a surface of either the fixing rotational member or the pressing rotational member;
• an operating section accepting a setting for printing without margin by which an image is formed with the toner image being transferred onto the paper sheet as far as at least one edge portion thereof in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction;
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• a control section that controls the cleaning means in such a manner as to increase a cleaning quantity by the cleaning means in a case where the operating section accepts the setting for printing without margin, as compared with a case where the operating section does not accept the setting for printing without margin.

An image forming method comprising:

• a fixing step fixing a toner image on a paper sheet on the paper sheet by causing a pressing rotational member to be in contact with pressure with a fixing rotational member that is heated by a heat source and causing the paper sheet to pass between these members;
• and
• a cleaning step cleaning a surface of either the fixing rotational member or the pressing rotational member after the fixing step, wherein
• the cleaning step increases, through a control section, a cleaning quantity in a case where a setting for printing without margin by which an image is formed with the toner image being transferred onto the paper sheet as far as at least one edge portion thereof in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction is accepted, as compared with a case where the setting for printing without margin is not accepted.