Patent ID: 8805226

Claim:
A fixing device, comprising: a fixing member that is able to circulate and fixes an image on a recording material to the recording material; a heated member that is at least partly separated from the fixing member; a heating unit that heats the fixing member and the heated member; a heated-member moving unit that moves the heated member toward the fixing member; and a fixing-member moving unit that moves the fixing member at a first speed, and moves the fixing member at a second speed higher than the first speed after the heated member is moved, wherein the fixing-member moving unit moves the fixing member at the second speed and then moves the fixing member at a third speed higher than the second speed, and wherein the fixing device further includes a power supply unit that supplies predetermined electric power to the heating unit when the fixing member is moved at the second speed, and supplies higher electric power than the predetermined electric power to the heating unit when the fixing member is moved at the third speed.