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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2015
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Aya Kakishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Miho Ikeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichiro Yuasa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasumitsu Harashima, Kanagawa, JP;
Toko Hara, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a heating unit, and a fixing unit. The image forming unit uses a toner including a flat pigment. The heating unit heats a recording medium. The fixing unit allows the recording medium to pass therethrough so as to cause an image formed on the recording medium to be fixed onto the recording medium by heat. In the image forming apparatus, the heating unit heats the recording medium on which the image has not been formed, the image forming unit forms the image on the recording medium having been heated, and the fixing unit fixes the image having been formed onto the recording medium.