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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2009
Kiyotoshi Kaneyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazutoshi Sugitani, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaaki Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadakazu Edure, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunori Kikuchihara, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyotoshi Kaneyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazutoshi Sugitani, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaaki Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadakazu Edure, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunori Kikuchihara, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A primary transfer device includes a primary transfer roll that is capable of being engaged with and disengaged from an intermediate transfer member to which a developer image is primarily transferred; and a setting-changing unit that changes a setting of pressure of the primary transfer roll to the intermediate transfer member in accordance with kind of a recording medium to which the developer image is secondarily transferred, wherein the setting-changing unit has an irregular medium transfer mode for a case where the recording medium to which the developer image is a recording medium having irregularities formed on a surface thereof, and an ordinary transfer mode for a case where the recording medium is a recording medium other than the recording medium having the irregularities, wherein a pressure set in the irregular medium transfer mode is smaller than that set in the ordinary transfer mode.