Patent ID: 8195077

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material and heat-fix the toner image onto the recording material; a re-conveying path configured to re-convey the recording material having a front side, on which the toner image has been formed and heat-fixed by the image forming portion, to the image forming portion so that a toner image is formed and heat-fixed on a back side of the recording material; a glossing portion configured to perform a glossing process for increasing glossiness of the toner image formed and heat-fixed by the image forming portion; and an executing device configured to execute: a high-gloss mode in which the glossing portion performs the glossing process on the toner image of the recording material re-conveyed, after the toner image is formed and heat-fixed on the front side of the recording material, through the re-conveying path to the image forming portion so as to form a high-gloss toner image; and a partial-gloss mode in which the image forming portion forms, without the glossing portion performing the glossing process, a partial-gloss toner image having glossiness lower than glossiness of the high-gloss toner image, wherein the glossing portion is provided in the re-conveying path.