Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoto Watanabe, Hiroyuki Eda, Hidenori Matsumoto
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoto Watanabe, Hiroyuki Eda, Hidenori Matsumoto
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An object is to suppress consumption of toner by a method of performing dew condensation elimination through toner application to a photosensitive drum. Provided is an image forming apparatus, including a plurality of photosensitive drums; an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from the photosensitive drums; a determination unit which is configured to determine whether or not a dew condensation occurrence condition is met; and a dew condensation elimination unit which is configured to perform a dew condensation elimination operation by applying toner to the photosensitive drum in a case where the determination unit determines that the dew condensation occurrence condition is met and when a start instruction for image formation is received. When the image formation is started in a color image formation mode, the dew condensation elimination unit executes a first dew condensation elimination mode of applying toner to photosensitive drums corresponding to all of colors.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
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