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US 2025/0189913 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji KITAMI
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a heat source, a fixing belt that is heated by the heat source to thermally fix a color material to each of a plurality of pieces of paper in sequence, an operation acceptor that allows a user to specify a fixation degree of the color material for the plurality of pieces of paper, and one or more controllers that cause each of the plurality of pieces of paper to pass through the fixing belt in sequence at a control paper feed amount which is a paper feed amount per unit time according to the fixation degree.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a heat source;
- a fixing belt that is heated by the heat source to thermally fix a color material to each of a plurality of pieces of paper in sequence;
- an operation acceptor that allows a user to specify a fixation degree for fixation of the color material to the plurality of pieces of paper;
- and
- one or more controllers that pass each of the plurality of pieces of paper through the fixing belt in sequence at a control paper feed amount representing a paper feed amount per unit time according to the fixation degree.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.