Patent ID: 8811840

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a fixing portion that heats a toner image formed on a sheet to fix the toner image for forming an image; a pair of rollers that conveys the sheet passed through the fixing portion, one roller of the pair of rollers being configured to be brought into contact with and spaced from another roller of the pair of rollers; a blower unit that blows air; a switch portion that directs the air blown by the blower unit toward the one roller of the pair of rollers by bringing the one roller into contact with the other roller, or toward a sheet conveying path between the pair of rollers and the fixing portion by spacing the one roller from the other roller; and a control portion that controls the switching of the switch portion so that when a mode for forming a first gloss image is set, the one roller is brought into contact with the other roller, and when a mode for forming a second gloss image having a lower gloss than the first gloss image is set, the one roller is spaced from the other roller.