Patent ID: 6681095
Filing Date: 2004-01-20
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A transparent coat layer forming apparatus, comprising:a heat-fixing device provided with a fixing belt; a particle layer forming apparatus that forms a particle layer made of transparent toner on the fixing belt of the heat-fixing device; plural rollers including a transfer roller which stretch a transfer region of the fixing belt to which the particle layer is transferred from the particle layer forming apparatus in a plane shape; and a retract mechanism that allows the fixing belt stretched in a plane shape by the plural rollers including the transfer roller to contact/separate from the particle layer forming apparatus, wherein the particle layer is formed on the fixing belt by the particle layer forming apparatus, and the particle layer formed on the fixing belt of the heat-fixing device is overlapped with a transfer material with an image transferred thereto in a fixing nip portion, followed by heating and pressurizing, whereby a transparent coat layer made of the particle layer is formed on the transfer material with the image transferred thereto.