Patent ID: 9201374
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus having an image forming function to form an image on a recording medium, and an image erasing function to erase an image formed on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming unit configured to form an image with coloring material whose color is erasable; a heating unit configured to heat the image at a fixing temperature when the image formed by the image forming unit is fixed on a recording medium and to heat the image at an erasing temperature higher than the fixing temperature when color of an image previously fixed on a recording medium is erased; a conveying unit configured to convey the recording medium to the heating unit through a prescribed conveying path; and a control unit configured to control the conveying unit so that when the color of the image is erased, and also when a heating temperature of the heating unit is lower than the erasing temperature, the recording medium is made to once stand by at a specific standby position at a more upstream side in a direction of conveying the recording medium than the heating unit, and after the standby, the recording medium is fed from the specific standby position to the heating unit.