Patent ID: 7315705

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a heating roller that fixes a toner image that has been transferred onto a sheet to the sheet; a fixing and discharging roller that feeds the sheet onto which the toner image has been fixed to a next process; a reverse feeding roller that feeds the sheet fed from the fixing and discharging roller to a reverse feeding path in a switchback manner; and a drive control section that controls drive of the heating roller that rotates at a first speed V 1 , fixing and discharging roller that rotates at a second speed V 2 , and reverse feeding roller that rotates at a third speed V 3 such that a relation between the first speed V 1 , the second speed V 2 , and the third speed V 3 which are determined by the respective rollers satisfies V 1 <V 3 <V 2 .