Fixing device and image forming system
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorDaisuke KUWABARA
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Abstract
A fixing device includes: a transport belt configured to transport a recording medium; and a first fixing unit configured to perform pressurization and heating on the recording medium transported onto the transport belt, and perform fixing processing of an image formed on the recording medium, in which, in a case where a recording medium on which the fixing processing is not performed is transported, the first fixing unit performs the pressurization on the recording medium at a distal end portion in a transport direction of the recording medium and releases the pressurization on the recording medium in a region of the recording medium except for the distal end portion.
Claims18
A fixing device comprising:
- a transport belt configured to transport a recording medium;
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- a first fixing unit configured to perform pressurization and heating on the recording medium transported onto the transport belt, and perform fixing processing of an image formed on the recording medium,
- wherein, in a case where a recording medium on which the fixing processing is not performed is transported, the first fixing unit performs the pressurization on the recording medium at a distal end portion in a transport direction of the recording medium and releases the pressurization on the recording medium in a region of the recording medium except for the distal end portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.