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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shigetaka Kurosu, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/6573 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0067 (2013.01);
Abstract
The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a post-processing apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus has a fixing unit configured to heat and press a recording sheet with a transferred toner image to fix the toner image to the recording sheet, and the post-processing apparatus has a humidifying unit configured to humidify the recording sheet with the toner image fixed by the fixing unit, and a voltage applying unit configured to apply a bias voltage to the recording sheet humidified by the humidifying unit.