Patent ID: 7907861

Claim:
An image heating apparatus comprising: a heating rotatable member for heating an image on a recording material; a heater for heating said heating rotatable member; a cooling device for cooling said heating rotatable member; wherein said apparatus is operable in a first mode in which the image on the recording material is heated with a first temperature to which said heating rotatable member is set, wherein said apparatus is operable in a second mode in which the image on the recording material is heated with a second temperature to which said heating rotatable member is set, said second temperature being lower than said first temperature; and a controller for controlling such that when an operation is switched from the first mode to the second mode a temperature of said heating rotatable member is lowered by said cooling device to a predetermined temperature that is lower than the second fixing temperature, and then the temperature of said heating rotatable member is raised by said heater to the second temperature.