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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2008
Hiroshi Yoshinaga, Ichikawa, JP;
Shinichi Namekata, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiharu Hachisuka, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Kunii, Yokohama, JP;
Ippei Fujimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Yasunori Ishigaya, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Yoshinaga, Ichikawa, JP;
Shinichi Namekata, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiharu Hachisuka, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Kunii, Yokohama, JP;
Ippei Fujimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Yasunori Ishigaya, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming part, a fixer including a heating member and a pressure member, a reverse transport part to forward a recording medium transported from the fixer to the image forming part, a toner image sensor to detect presence of a toner image on the recording medium, and a controller. When a glossy image formation mode is selected and no toner image is detected on the recording medium, the image forming part does not form a toner image on the recording medium, the fixer performs a first heating and pressing process and transports the recording medium to the reverse transport part, the reverse transport part transports the recording medium to the image forming part, the image forming part forms a toner image on the recording medium transported from the reverse transport part, and the fixer performs a second heating and pressing process and fixes the toner image thereon.