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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2013
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Nagai, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, , JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus according to an aspect of this invention controls a fixing temperature when a fixing device of a printer engine fixes an image on a recording material. More specifically, the image forming apparatus sets the fixing temperature to a value lower than that in a normal mode when printing an image in a power saving mode, and decides an amount of applied toner with which the fixing device can fix the image on the recording material at the set fixing temperature. Furthermore, the image forming apparatus generates print data corresponding to the decided amount of applied toner from input image data, and prints the image on the recording material based on the generated print data.