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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1997
Shigeru Muramatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an image forming apparatus, a fixing device has a structure in which a film formed on an outer face of a hollow cylinder is heated by a heat ray of a heater. In this structure, the heating response time of the fixing device is improved. The image forming apparatus generates one or more conditions having influence on a fixing operation and corresponding to a printing paper sheet. The operation of the fixing device is controlled in accordance with the one or more conditions. Since there is one or more conditions of the printing paper sheet for controlling the fixing operation, fixing processing can be preferably executed even when various kinds of factors of the printing paper sheet such as a size, a conveying direction, etc. are different from each other. The heating response time of the fixing device is preferable so that temperature control of the fixing device can be effectively executed. The fixing processing can be preferably executed so as to provide fast heating and energy savings even when sizes, conveying directions of the printing paper sheet, etc. are respectively different from each other.