Patent ID: 8626012
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a toner image forming device that forms a toner image by using at least one of a plurality of toners that include a color toner and a first transparent toner that has a viscoelasticity higher than a viscoelasticity of the color toner; an intermediate transfer body to which the toner image formed by the toner image forming device is transferred; a second transfer unit that transfers the toner image transferred to the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium; and a controller that acquires characteristic information that represents a characteristic of in-plane resistance variation of a currently-used recording medium before the toner image forming device forms the toner image, and if the characteristic information indicates that the in-plane resistance variation of the currently-used recording medium is larger than a predetermined in-plane resistance variation value, controls the toner image forming device so that the toner image forming device forms a transparent toner image by using the first transparent toner in such a way that a color toner image formed by using the color toner is superimposed on the transparent toner image on the intermediate transfer body.