Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShigeru Tanaka, Yasuharu Chiyoda, Daigo Matsuura, Mitsuru Hasegawa, Yusuke Yamaguchi, Shigeru Hirano
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a reading portion for reading a shape of a first sheet, said reading portion having a function of reading a second sheet carrying an original image; an image forming portion for forming a toner image corresponding to the original image read by said reading portion; a fixing portion for fixing the toner image formed by said image forming portion; and a controller for controlling a fixing condition of said fixing portion in accordance with the shape of the first sheet read by said reading portion.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a reading portion configured to read a shape of a first sheet, said reading portion having a function of reading a second sheet carrying an original image;
- an image forming portion configured to form a toner image corresponding to the original image read by said reading portion;
- a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image formed by said image forming portion;
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- a controller configured to control a fixing condition of said fixing portion in accordance with the shape of the first sheet read by said reading portion.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a receiving portion configured to receive information corresponding to an original image from an external terminal outside of said image forming apparatus;
- an image forming portion configured to form a toner image corresponding to the information received by said receiving portion;
- a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image formed by image forming portion;
- a reading portion configured to read a shape of the sheet on which the toner image corresponding to the information is formed by said image forming portion;
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- a controller configured to control a fixing condition of said fixing portion in response to a shape of the sheet read by said reading portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.