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AssigneeEtria Co., Ltd.
InventorsShogo NAKAMOTO, Daisuke INOUE, Takamasa HASE, Ryohhei SUGIYAMA, Arinobu YOSHIURA
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An image forming apparatus includes a processor; and a memory that includes instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute forming, by an image former, an image on a recording medium; fixing, by a fixer including a rotatable fixing member, the image onto the recording medium, by causing the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image former to be disposed against the fixing member; driving, by a driver, the fixing member; and acquiring, by control circuitry, life information related to a life of the fixer based on either a driving current or a torque of the driver and an operation state of the fixer, and outputting the acquired life information.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
An image forming method executed by an image forming apparatus, the image forming method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process performed in an image forming apparatus, the process comprising:
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