Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkiyoshi Shinagawa, Oki Kitagawa, Masanobu Tanaka
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device configured to form a toner image on a sheet; a fixing device configured to fix the toner image formed on the sheet by the image forming device at a nip; an executing portion configured to execute an operation in a cleaning mode for cleaning the fixing device by forming a predetermined toner image on a sheet using the image forming device and then by introducing the sheet into the nip; and a notifying device for notifying an operator that a maximum-width sheet usable in the image forming device is to be used in the operation in the cleaning mode.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming device configured to form a toner image on a sheet;
- a fixing device configured to fix the toner image formed on the sheet by said image forming device at a nip;
- an executing portion configured to execute an operation in a cleaning mode for cleaning said fixing device by forming a predetermined toner image on a sheet using said image forming device and then by introducing the sheet into the nip;
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- a notifying device for notifying an operator that a maximum-width sheet usable in said image forming device is to be used in the operation in the cleaning mode.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of accommodating devices each configured to accommodate a sheet;
- an image forming device configured to form a toner image on a sheet fed from one of said accommodating devices;
- a fixing device configured to fix the toner image formed on the sheet by said image forming device at a nip;
- an executing portion configured to execute an operation in a cleaning mode for cleaning said fixing device by forming a predetermined toner image on a sheet using said image forming device and then by introducing the sheet into the nip;
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- a selector configured to select, as a sheet used in the operation in the cleaning mode, a maximum-width size sheet from the sheets accommodated in said accommodating devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.