Patent ID: 7593658
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a toner image forming device for forming a toner image on a recording material; a fixing member for heat-fixing the toner image formed by the toner image forming device on the recording material; a glossing member for enhancing glossiness of the toner image by heating the toner image heat-fixed on the recording material by the fixing member; a performing device for performing a normal mode and a glossing mode wherein, in the normal mode the heat-fixed toner image is not heated by the glossing member, and in the glossing mode the heat-fixed toner image is heated by the glossing member; a glossiness setting device for setting the glossiness of the toner image by setting a temperature of the glossing member in the glossing mode; a temperature setting device for setting a temperature of the glossing member, wherein the temperature setting device sets the temperature of the glossing member in the normal mode to be lower than the temperature of the glossing member in the glossing mode, and wherein, when the image forming apparatus receives a command of a subsequent image forming job of the glossing mode while performing an image forming job of the normal mode, the temperature setting device raises the temperature of the glossing member before completing the image forming job of the normal mode; and a changing device for changing a time interval from receiving the command of the subsequent image forming job to starting to raise the temperature of the glossing member according to a time interval between receiving the command of the subsequent image forming job and completing the current image forming job of the normal mode, a temperature of the glossing member when receiving the command of the subsequent image forming job, and a glossiness of the toner image set by the glossiness setting device for the subsequent image forming job.