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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2010
Norio Ogawahara, Kanagawa, JP;
Norio Ogawahara, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An fixing apparatus of the present invention includes: a developer image forming section that is provided to an apparatus main body and forms a developer image on a recording medium; a fixing section that is provided to the apparatus main body and fixes the developer image that has been formed on the recording medium by the developer image forming section; an identification section that is provided to the fixing section and allows a type of recording medium for being fixed by the fixing section to be identified; and a banning section that is provided to the apparatus main body, identifies the type of recording medium for being fixed by the fixing section using the identification section and bans image forming on a recording medium that has a different type from the type of recording medium for being fixed by the fixing section.