Patent ID: 7356298

Claim:
An image fixing apparatus, comprising: a linear heating body and guide rollers including a cooling body; an endless belt entrained around the linear heating body and the guide rollers including the cooling body; a cooling mechanism in addition to the guide rollers and configured to cool the endless belt; an electricity supplying member configured to supply electricity to the linear heating body with pulse electricity, the electricity supplying member comprising an electricity-supply controlling member; and a pressure body for interposing a subject to be fixed having an image between the endless belt; wherein the image on the subject to be fixed is heated by the linear heating body by way of the endless belt, and thereafter being cooled and removed from the endless belt, wherein the image is formed by a toner comprising a binder containing a resin as a main component, and one of a softening point and a melting point of the toner is in the range of 50 to 160Â° C., and a viscosity of the toner is in the range of 10 to 10 13 centi-poise at temperature greater than either the softening point and the melting point of the toner.