Patent ID: 7890036
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming method including: transferring an image of toner on an image carrying member to a recording medium; and fixing the image transferred to the recording medium, comprising: contact fixing a surface of the image after the image is transferred to the recording medium using an image contact fixing unit wherein the image contact fixing unit contacts the surface of the image on the recording medium, so that a smoothness which corresponds to a surface roughness of the image with respect to a surface roughness of the recording medium is 2 or less; and non-contact fixing the image into the recording medium without contact on the surface of the image on the recording medium, wherein the non-contact fixing is a final process of the fixing, and a transporting speed of the recording medium during the non-contact fixing of the image is smaller than a transporting speed of the recording medium during the contact fixing.