Patent ID: 8170460

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming device to form an image on a light-transmitting medium with image formation toner; an adhesion processing device to set whether or not to make the light-transmitting medium contact a light-reflecting medium for each area of a plurality of areas that constitute the image; an adhesion device to adhere adhesive toner to an adhesion area of the light-transmitting medium; and a fixing device to align the light-reflecting medium with the light-transmitting medium such that the light-reflecting medium contacts a surface of the light-transmitting medium to which the adhesive toner adheres and to fix the light-reflecting medium to the light-transmitting medium, wherein the adhesion processing device sets an area of the image in the vicinity of a most saturated point as an area in which the light-transmitting medium does not contact the light-reflecting medium.