Patent ID: 9335681
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a conveying unit configured to convey a sheet; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet to be conveyed by the conveying unit using an erasable toner; a fixer configured to heat the image at a target fixing temperature to fix the image to be formed by the image forming unit onto the sheet; a sensor configured to obtain information printed on the sheet regarding reuse of the sheet including a number of times that the sheet has been subject to an erasing processing for reuse; a storage unit that stores a plurality of different fixing temperatures, each corresponding to a different number of times that a sheet has been subject to the erasing processing; and a controller configured to: the stored fixing temperatures are lower as the corresponding number of times that a sheet has been subject to the erasing processing is larger.