Sharp Labushiki Kaisha

Syuichi Yoshinaka

Takashi Kubo

Nobuyuki Ueda

Hideo Matsuda

Toshiki Ohgita

Yasuhiro Ono

Yoshiaki Masuda

Hidetoshi Kaneko

Masato Tokishige

Tokiyuki Okano

Kiyoshi Inamoto

Kazunori Soda

Atsushi Kurimoto

Kazunori Iwasa

Tomiyuki Ishikawa

An electrophotographic apparatus is provided with a fixing device having the first through third fixing rollers for forming the first fixing section by contacting the first and second fixing rollers as well as forming the second fixing section by contacting the second and third fixing rollers, the first fixing section being temperature-adjusted in relation to a first copying mode, the second fixing section being temperature-adjusted in relation to a second copying mode. Either the first or second fixing section is temperature-adjusted according to the order of priority in such a manner that after the completion of the temperature adjustments, temperature adjustments with respect to the other fixing section is successively carried out.

Electrophotographic apparatus having two fixing sections and control

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Syuichi Yoshinaka