Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoji Uchiyama
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material includes an image forming portion configured to form the toner image on the recording material, a fixing portion including a heater and configured to fix the toner image on the recording material by heating the toner image formed on the recording material, and a controller configured to control the image forming apparatus. When toner images are continuously formed on a plurality of recording materials, the controller sets an interval between a preceding recording material and a subsequent recording material depending on unevenness of a print ratio of the subsequent recording material with respect to a direction perpendicular to a recording material feeding direction of the subsequent recording material.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material, comprising:
- an image forming portion configured to form the toner image on the recording material;
- a fixing portion including a heater and configured to fix the toner image on the recording material by heating the toner image formed on the recording material;
- and
- a controller configured to control said image forming apparatus,
- wherein when toner images are continuously formed on a plurality of recording materials, said controller sets an interval between a preceding recording material and a subsequent recording material depending on unevenness of a print ratio of the subsequent recording material with respect to a direction perpendicular to a recording material feeding direction of the subsequent recording material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.