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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2016
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Kaneko, Shizuoka, JP;
Minoru Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Takagi, Tokyo, JP;
Takahito Kabai, Shizuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Taguchi, Shizuoka, JP;
Ken Iguchi, Shizuoka, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit which forms a first image on a first recording medium with a first material that is not thermally decolorizable; a second image forming unit which forms a second image on a second recording medium with a second material that is thermally decolorizable; a fixing device which is on a common carrying path shared by the first recording medium and the second recording medium and fixes the first image to the first recording medium; and a controller which controls the fixing device so that a temperature of the fixing device is lower than a decolorizing temperature of the second material when the second recording medium reaches the fixing device.