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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2021
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Naofumi Murata, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes an image forming unit that forms a toner image on a recording material, a fixing unit that heats the recording material and fixes the toner image onto the recording material, and a heating-temperature control unit that controls a temperature of the fixing unit, and which performs an image forming operation of forming the toner image and fixing the toner image onto the recording material. In a case of performing the image forming operation a plurality of times, the heating-temperature control unit performs control such that the temperature of the fixing unit is a first temperature when performing the image forming operation a first number of times and that the temperature of the fixing unit is a second temperature when performing the image forming operation a second number of times.