Patent ID: 9158219
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming section that forms a toner image on a printing medium by using a plurality of image creating devices and a plurality of toners including a first set of toners of which at least one of each particle diameter and each particle shape is different from that of a second set of toners, wherein the plurality of image creating devices include (i) a first set of image creating devices and (ii) a second set of image creating devices different from the first set of image creating devices; a fixing section that fixes the toner image using the first set of toners which is formed on the printing medium by the first set of image creating devices of the image forming section, and, thereafter, that separately fixes the toner image using the second set of toners which is formed on the printing medium by the second set of image creating devices of the image forming section; a retransporting section that transports the same surface of the printing medium, on which the toner image is fixed by the fixing section after the toner image has been fixed onto the printing medium, to the image forming section again; and a changing section that changes a fixing pressure such that the changing section applies (i) a first pressure at the time of fixing the toner image with the first set of toners, (ii) a second pressure at the time of fixing the toner image using the second set of toners other than the first set of toners, when the toner image is formed on the printing medium by the image forming section and the toner image is fixed by the fixing section a plurality of times, wherein the first and second pressures are different.