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US 7,260,354 B2Granted
Image forming method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiku Ishida
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Abstract
Using an adhesive toner that is lower in a lower-limit temperature of a fixable temperature than an image forming toner, the image forming toner and the adhesive toner are formed on one and the same transfer material. A document is sealed by an adhesive force of the adhesive toner, at a temperature at which the image forming toner develops no adhesive force.
Claims5
An image forming method comprising the following steps in the recited order:
- forming an image on a recording material using an image forming toner;
- heat fixing the image on the recording material, which has been formed using the image forming toner;
- forming an adhesive toner that is lower in a lower-limit temperature of a fixable temperature than the image forming toner in a position, which does not overlap with a position, in which the image of the image forming toner is formed, on the recording material;
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- heat fixing the adhesive toner on the recording material.
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