Patent ID: 7242881
Filing Date: 2007-07-10
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a recording medium setting section for setting a kind of a recording medium; a fixing device for fixing a toner image formed on a recording medium onto the recording medium, the fixing device comprising a first fixing member equipped with a heating device and a second fixing member for making pressure contact of the recording medium to the first fixing member, wherein each of the first fixing member and the second fixing member is a body of rotation; a moving section for relatively moving the first fixing member and the second fixing member; and a controller for controlling the moving section and the fixing device so that the first fixing member and the second fixing member that have been in the disengaged state are brought in pressure contact with each other, at least one of the first and the second fixing members is rotated, and the heating device is turned off, when a second target control temperature of the first fixing member conforming to a second kind of the recording medium set by the recording medium setting section is lower than a first target control temperature conforming to a first kind of the recording medium which had been previously set.