Image forming method, image forming apparatus, fixing device, and image-formed product
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsSeijiro TAKAHASHI, Kouji Sugama, Haruo Horiguchi, Yukiko Kusano, Toyoko Shibata
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Abstract
An image forming method includes: developing an electrostatic latent image with a toner to form a toner image; and transferring the toner image onto a recording medium and irradiating the toner image with an actinic ray to fix the toner image to the recording medium, wherein in the transferring, a plurality of types of toner particles containing toner particles of a color toner and toner particles of a transparent toner is fixed to the same area included in the recording medium.
Claims14
An image forming method comprising:
- developing an electrostatic latent image with a toner to form a toner image;
- and
- transferring the toner image onto a recording medium and irradiating the toner image with an actinic ray to fix the toner image to the recording medium, wherein
- in the transferring, a plurality of types of toner particles containing toner particles of a color toner and toner particles of a transparent toner is fixed to the same area included in the recording medium.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a toner image former that develops an electrostatic latent image with a toner to form a toner image;
- and
- a fixing device that transfers the toner image onto a recording medium and irradiates the toner image with an actinic ray to fix the toner image to the recording medium, wherein
- the fixing device fixes a plurality of types of toner particles containing toner particles of a color toner and toner particles of a transparent toner to the same area included in the recording medium.
An image-formed product formed by fixing toner particles of a color toner and toner particles of a transparent toner to a recording medium,
- the image-formed product comprising a plurality of fixed products of the color toner united via a fixed product of the transparent toner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.