Patent ID: 9459574
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a toner image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit configured to heat and fix the toner image, which has been formed on the recording medium by the toner image forming unit, onto the recording medium; an ejection unit configured to eject the recording medium, to which the toner image has been fixed by the fixing unit, through a curved transport path; a transport unit for two-sided printing, wherein the transport unit is configured to flip over the recording medium, to which the toner image has been fixed by the fixing unit, and transport the recording medium to the toner image forming unit; and a switching unit configured to, in response to a subsequent operation being specified to be performed on the recording medium, to which the toner image has been fixed by the fixing unit on a first side surface of the recording medium: