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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2010
Hisamitsu Hori, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hisamitsu Hori, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The fixing processing apparatus includes: a conveyance device which conveys a recording medium in a prescribed conveyance direction along a conveyance path, a desired image having been recorded in an image formation region on an image formation surface of the conveyed recording medium; a heat and pressure fixing device which is arranged in the conveyance path and carries out heat and pressure fixing process in which the image formation surface of the recording medium is subjected to at least one of heating process, pressing process and non-pressing process, the heat and pressure fixing device applying pressure to the image formation region in the pressing process, the heat and pressure fixing device applying no pressure to the image formation region in the non-pressing process; and a setting device which sets a temperature of the heat and pressure fixing device to be higher in the non-pressing process than in the pressing process.