Patent ID: 9555656
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B41M,G03G

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a fixing device configured to include a pressure section and a heating section for heating an image receiving medium and to execute a fixing processing for fixing an image formed on the image receiving medium with a decolorable color material at a fixing temperature or an erasure processing for erasing an image at a decoloring temperature, the pressure section of the fixing device is arranged separably from a heating section of the fixing device; a reading section configured to be arranged at the upstream side of the fixing device in the conveyance direction of the image receiving medium to read an identifier indicating whether or not the color material of the image formed on the image receiving medium can be decolorized; a control section configured to control the execution of the erasure processing of the image on the image receiving medium with the fixing device according to a result of reading of the identifier with the reading section; and if the erasure processing is not executed according to the result of reading of the identifier on the image receiving medium with the reading section, the control section controls to separate the pressure section from the heating section to release press operation and then to convey the image receiving medium to a space between the pressure section and the heating section.