Patent ID: 9229383
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus of an electrophotographic type, comprising: an image composition unit configured to compose an input image and a form image and generate a composite image; a determination unit configured to determine whether the image composition processing by said image composition unit is designated; a threshold determination unit configured to determine whether the maximum amount of applied toner of the form image is not less than a predetermined threshold; a setting unit configured to set the amount of applied toner of the form image as the amount of applied toner of the composite image if said determination unit determines that the image composition processing by said image composition unit is designated, and said threshold determination unit determines that the maximum amount of applied toner of the form image is not less than the predetermined threshold; and a control unit configured to control, based on a fixing temperature that is determined based on the amount of applied toner set by said setting unit, the fixing temperature when performing fixing processing for a printing medium with a toner image that is formed based on the composite image.