Image forming apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKiyotaka MURAKAMI
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a medium and write data to a wireless tag attached to the medium, includes a fixing device including a heater and configured to fix the image formed on the medium by heat, and a controller configured to control the fixing device to heat a first region of the medium to which the wireless tag is not attached at a first temperature, and control the fixing device to heat a second region of the medium to which the wireless tag is attached at a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a medium and write data to a wireless tag attached to the medium, comprising:
- a fixing device including a heater and configured to fix the image formed on the medium by heat;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- control the fixing device to heat a first region of the medium to which the wireless tag is not attached at a first temperature, and
- control the fixing device to heat a second region of the medium to which the wireless tag is attached at a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.
A method carried out by an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a medium and write data to a wireless tag attached to the medium and including a fixing device with a heater and configured to fix the image formed on the medium by heat, the method comprising:
- heating a first region of the medium to which the wireless tag is not attached at a first temperature;
- and
- heating a second region of the medium to which the wireless tag is attached at a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a method of forming an image on a medium and write data to a wireless tag attached to the medium and fixing the image on the medium by heat, the method comprising:
- heating a first region of the medium to which the wireless tag is not attached at a first temperature;
- and
- heating a second region of the medium to which the wireless tag is attached at a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.