Patent ID: 7200345

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming section for forming a toner image on a recording sheet; a fixing section including a heating member which comes in contact with the toner image, a pressing member including a plurality of pressing heads, the pressing member and the heating member being arranged to form a nipping section therebetween, and a belt member inserted through the nipping section for fixing the toner image on the recording sheet by conveying the recording sheet through the nipping section; and a control section for controlling the fixing section and obtaining recording sheet information with respect to at least one of a plurality of conditions, the control section selecting one of the plurality of pressing heads based on the recording sheet information; wherein each of the plurality of pressing heads includes an elastic member and differs in shape and with respect to at least one of a thickness distribution along the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction, a heat capacitance distribution along the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction, and a hardness distribution along the direction perpendicular to the conveying direction, and wherein the control section controls the fixing section to press the recording sheet through the belt member with the selected one of the plurality of pressing heads.