Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorYasuo Abuyama
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Abstract
The invention provides an image forming apparatus having a control device to control a fixer and a paper conveyor system to perform preheating of the fixer and driving of the conveyor system for a predetermined time interval immediately after power is supplied, to stop the fixer and the conveyor system when preheating of the fixer is completed before the predetermined time interval has elapsed, and to continue operation of the conveyor system when a paper sheet is jammed in the paper conveyor system, even if preheating of the fixing means is completed before the predetermined time interval has elapsed.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- image forming means for forming a visible image on a paper sheet;
- conveyor means for conveying the paper sheet to said image forming means;
- fixing means for fixing the visible image formed on the paper sheet by said image forming means;
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- control means for controlling said fixing means and said conveyor means, said control means including means for driving said conveyor means for a predetermined time, means for driving said fixing means until the temperature of said fixing means reaches a predetermined temperature, and means for detecting that the temperature of said fixing means reaches said predetermined temperature and stopping said conveyor means when the temperature of said fixing means is detected to be said predetermined temperature.
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