Patent ID: 8588633

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming portion configured to form a full-color toner image and a transparent toner image on a sheet; a fixing portion configured to heat-fix the full-color toner image and the transparent toner image on the sheet formed by the image forming portion; a sheet conveying portion configured to convey the sheet, of which the full-color toner image and the transparent toner image are formed at a first time and which is passed through the fixing portion, toward the image forming portion to form the transparent toner image on the sheet at a second time without an inversion operation of the sheet; an obtaining portion configured to obtain information corresponding to a first area where a gloss level should relatively and partly be increased in the full-color toner image on the sheet and a second area where the gloss level should relatively and partly be decreased in the full-color toner image on the sheet; and a controlling portion configured to control the image forming portion, wherein when the transparent toner images are formed on the first area and the second area of the sheet respectively based on the information obtained by the obtaining portion, the controlling portion controls the image forming portion to form the transparent toner image on the first area in the sheet at the first time, and form the transparent toner image on the second area in the sheet at the second time.