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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2000
Satoshi Usui, Nakai-machi, JP;
Kiyotaka Ishikawa, Nakai-machi, JP;
Nobuyuki Kato, Nakai-machi, JP;
Kouichirou Shinohara, Nakai-machi, JP;
Fuji Xerox Xo., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In this invention, even if a thick resin coated recording medium having large heat capacity is used, a high quality image with an excellent gloss feeling is obtained. A transfer fixing device is provided with a press conveying mechanism which includes at least one pair of pressing bodies for nipping and conveying an image bearing and conveying body and a recording medium, and contact-conveys the recording medium on the image bearing and conveying body in a region exceeding a nip region of the pair of pressing bodies, and a heat supply adjusting mechanism which includes a heating source for heating the recording medium contact-conveyed on the image bearing and conveying body by the press conveying mechanism from both obverse and reverse sides to melt an unfixed image and a thermoplastic resin layer, and makes adjustment to cause heat supplied to an image bearing surface side of the recording medium to be more than heat supplied to a non-image bearing surface side of the recording medium. Besides, transferring and fixing is performed by a heating and pressing mechanism after a preheating mechanism. Further, the image bearing and conveying body having plural different gloss surfaces is provided. Moreover, an image forming apparatus using these is also provided.