Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same

Abstract

A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressuring member a cooling part and a control part. The fixing member is heated by a heat source. The pressuring member comes into pressure contact with the fixing member to form a fixing nip. The cooling part cools the pressuring member heated via the fixing member. The control part controls the cooling part. The fixing member and the pressuring member are rotatable and fix a toner image at least one of a front face and a rear face of a sheet passing through the fixing nip. The cooling part is controlled by the control part to lower a temperature of the pressuring member at a first fixing processing in which the toner image is fixed on the front face of the sheet compared with a second fixing processing in which the toner image is fixed on the rear face of the sheet.

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