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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2003
Yoshio Tani, Shizuoka, JP;
Masataka Murata, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshio Kanesawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To produce images at high speed, to conserve energy, and to be satisfactorily operated over the long run, a method fixes a toner onto an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet with the use of a belt fixing and smoothing apparatus and thereby forms an electrophotographic image. The belt fixing and smoothing apparatus includes a hot-pressing member, a belt member, a cooling device, and a cooling-releasing section. In the method, the total heat capacity per unit area in portions where the belt member, the toner, and the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet are in contact with one another is 840 J/K/mor less.