Patent ID: 9377730
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium, comprising: a fixing member to fix toner to the recording medium; a heating control part to heat the fixing member to a specified temperature; a measuring part to measure a temperature of the fixing member; and a calculation part to calculate an arrival time required until the temperature of the fixing member reaches a target temperature based on a difference between the target temperature at a warming-up end time of the fixing member and the temperature measured by the measuring part, wherein in response to a determination by the calculation part that the arrival time is shorter than a warm-up time required to warm up the image forming apparatus except for the fixing device, the heating control part starts to heat the fixing member after a specified time passes from a time when warming-up of the image forming apparatus is started.