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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2007
Atsushi Tanaka, Kashihara, JP;
Kenji Asakura, Kyoto, JP;
Atsushi Tanaka, Kashihara, JP;
Kenji Asakura, Kyoto, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an image forming apparatus involving wet fixing that causes no bleeding and coagulation of toner and eventually no disturbance of toner image as a result of application of a fixing fluid, generates no curling or wrinkles in a recording medium, and can fix toner with large adhesion on a recording medium through which the fixing fluid hardly permeates. An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming section, an intermediate transfer section, a transfer section, a fixing fluid applying section, a transport section, a fixing section, a recording medium feeding section, and a recording medium detection section. In the image forming apparatus, control of application amount of a fixing fluid to a recording medium is performed by the fixing fluid applying section based on the result obtained by the recording medium detection section for the recording medium such as thickness and material.