Image forming apparatus and image forming method
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorTakashi Fukui
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus has: an intermediate transfer body which carries an image; a transfer mechanism which transfers the image carried on the intermediate transfer body, onto a transfer surface of a recording medium fixed to a surface of a rotating body; and a fixing mechanism which is disposed so as to oppose the surface of the rotating body to a downstream side of the transfer mechanism in terms of a direction of rotation of the rotating body, and which fixes the image that has been transferred to the transfer surface of the recording medium, onto the recording medium.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an intermediate transfer body which carries an image;
- a transfer mechanism which transfers the image carried on the intermediate transfer body, onto a transfer surface of a recording medium fixed to a surface of a rotating body;
- and
- a fixing mechanism which is disposed so as to oppose the surface of the rotating body to a downstream side of the transfer mechanism in terms of a direction of rotation of the rotating body, and which fixes the image that has been transferred to the transfer surface of the recording medium, onto the recording medium, wherein
- the recording medium is conveyed from the transfer mechanism to the fixing mechanism in a state where it is fixed to the surface of the rotating body.
An image forming method, comprising:
- a transfer step of transferring an image carried on an intermediate transfer body, to a recording medium fixed to a surface of a rotating body;
- and
- a fixing step of fixing the image transferred to the recording medium in the transfer step, in a state where the recording medium is fixed to the surface of the rotating body, wherein
- the recording medium is in a state where it is fixed to the surface of the rotating body from the transfer step to the fixing step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.