Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsHIROTAKA KANOU, HIROYUKI MAEDA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing roller that fixes an unfixed image to a medium; a drive motor of the fixing roller, and a hardware processor that acquires information regarding a state of the image forming apparatus or information regarding a state of the medium, and controls a number of rotations of the drive motor between a preset upper limit value and a preset lower limit value, wherein the hardware processor changes the upper limit value and the lower limit value while maintaining a difference between the upper limit value and the lower limit value on a basis of the acquired information.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a fixing roller that fixes an unfixed image to a medium;
- a drive motor of the fixing roller;
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- a hardware processor that
- acquires information regarding a state of the image forming apparatus or information regarding a state of the medium, and
- controls a number of rotations of the drive motor between a preset upper limit value and a preset lower limit value,
- wherein the hardware processor changes the upper limit value and the lower limit value while maintaining a difference between the upper limit value and the lower limit value on a basis of the acquired information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.