Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Kazunori Numao

Nobukazu Takahashi

Kazuhiko Arai

Fumio Furusawa

Ryuji Hattori

Yasutomo Ishii

Masayo Higashimura

Takashi Fuchiwaki

Hitoshi Funato

Masayoshi Nakao

Junichiro Sameshima

Kunihiko Sato

Yasuhiro Kusumoto

Keitaro Mori

Noriaki Kojima

Yutaka Kiuchi

Atsumi Kurita

Masao Okubo

Yuki Yokoyama

Shigeyoshi Kuroyanagi

Jisun Choi

An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a continuous medium; an image forming unit that forms an image on a surface of the medium; a pasting unit that pastes a protection member to the surface of the medium on which the image has been formed; an inspection unit disposed downstream of the image forming unit in a direction in which the medium is transported, the inspection unit inspecting whether the image is defective; a cutting unit disposed downstream of the inspection unit in the direction, the cutting unit being capable of performing an operation of forming a cut in the protection member and the medium so as to surround the image; and a controller that controls the cutting unit so that the cutting unit does not perform the operation of forming a cut in the protection member and the medium if the image is defective.

Image forming apparatus with rotational cutter and cut forming apparatus

A cooling device cools a continuous resin film, which is transported and onto which a toner image is transferred, after the toner image is heated so that the toner image is fixed to the resin film. The resin film to which the toner image is fixed is cooled in such a manner that an image surface side of the resin film is convexly curved.

Cooling device, image forming apparatus, and cooling method

A fixing device includes a heating unit that heats an unfixed image on a recording medium, which is deformed by heating, and hence fixes the unfixed image; and a transport member that closely contacts a no-image surface of the recording medium and transports the recording medium while causing a close contact force to act on the recording medium against a deformation force, which is generated at the recording medium by the heating of the heating unit. The close contact force of the recording medium with respect to the transport member is larger than the deformation force generated at the recording medium.

Fixing device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a first toner image, a transfer unit that transfers the first toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium directly or through an intermediate transfer body, a fixing unit that fixes the first toner image that has been transferred onto the recording medium, and a glossiness-controlling unit that forms a second toner image made of clear toner on the recording medium in accordance with an amount of toner that forms the first toner image to be transferred onto the recording medium, thereby controlling a glossiness on a surface of the recording medium that has been subjected to the fixing performed by the fixing unit.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image formation apparatus for document production of reproduction which includes a plurality of paper feed trays T,-T,placed in overlapped relation at multiple stages from top to bottom wherein the length of the top-stage paper feed tray T,in the paper feed direction is formed shorter than the length of each of the paper feed trays T,-T,at lower stages in the paper feed direction, an image support,an intermediate transfer body B, and a secondary transfer device,placed in a tray upward paper feed side space Sa above the paper feed tray T,a fuser T placed in a top-stage tray side space Sb,on the side of the top-stage paper feed tray T,and an upward side space Sb,above the space Sb,and a developing unit D placed in the upward side space Sb

Compact image formation system having a plurality of paper trays

An image formation apparatus for document production or reproduction which includes a plurality of paper feed trays T1-T4 placed in overlapped relation at multiple stages from top to bottom wherein the length of the top-stage paper feed tray T1 in the paper feed direction is formed shorter than the length of each of the paper feed trays T2-T4 at lower stages in the paper feed direction, an image support 16, an intermediate transfer body B, and a secondary transfer device 31 placed in a tray upward paper feed side space Sa above the paper feed tray T1, a fuser T placed in a top-stage tray side space Sb1 on the side of the top-stage paper feed tray T1 and an upward side space Sb2 above the space Sb1, and a developing unit D placed in the upward side space Sb2.

Image formation apparatus for document production or reproduction

An image forming apparatus of such a type as is provided with a photosensitive member having a semi-conductive intermediate transfer member disposed opposite the photosensitive member. A charger electrically charges the photosensitive member. An exposure device forms an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member and developer visualizes the electrostatic latent image using toner identical in polarity to the photosensitive member. A primary transfer device transfers the toner image to the intermediate transfer member by applying a bias opposite in polarity to the photosensitive member, and a secondary transfer apparatus transfers the toner image on the intermediate transfer member to a transfer material. An optical charge-eliminator optically removes the electrical charge from the photosensitive member. A contact charge-eliminator is provided between the optical charge-eliminator and the primary transfer device so as to completely eliminate the electric charge injected into the photosensitive member at the time of the primary transfer.

Image forming method and apparatus having a semiconductive intermediate

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Kazunori Numao