Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd.

Kiyotaka Arai

Masazumi Ishikawa

Yuji Yamamoto

Hidetoshi Nishikawa

Masasuke Funase

Kazunobu Shima

Kazuo Nagaosa

Masanori Inoshita

Masaki Nakamoto

An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit having a print head for applying ink to a surface layer of a recording medium transported thereto; a loop-forming unit capable of temporarily storing the recording medium discharged from the printing unit; and a heating unit for heating the recording medium fed from the loop-forming unit for fixing the ink applied to the surface layer onto its fixing layer. The heating unit includes a preliminary heating subunit for heating the recording medium from a normal temperature level to a ink fixing temperature level, a main heating unit for heating the recording medium at the ink fixing temperature level and a slow cooling subunit for slowly cooling the recording medium to the normal temperature level.

Image forming apparatus

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Wakayama, Japan

Kiyotaka Arai