Image forming apparatus controlling fixing temperature
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorTadashi Ohba
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming section, a fixing section, and a control section. The toner image forming section forms a toner image based on image data for printing on printing paper. The fixing section fixes the toner image on the printing paper through thermocompression. The control section controls a toner image forming operation by the toner image forming section and a fixing operation by the fixing section. The control section calculates a size parameter associated with a size of a uniform density region included in the toner image based on the image data for the printing and controls a fixing temperature of the fixing section according to a calculation result.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a toner image forming section configured to form a toner image based on image data for printing on printing paper;
- a fixing section configured to fix the toner image on the printing paper through thermocompression;
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- a control section configured to control a toner image forming operation by the toner image forming section and a fixing operation by the fixing section,
- wherein the control section calculates a size parameter associated with a size of a uniform density region included in the toner image based on the image data for the printing and controls a fixing temperature of the fixing section according to a calculation result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.