Patent ID: 8086124

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: toner image forming means for forming a non-transparent toner image and a transparent toner image on a recording material; fixing means for fixing the non-transparent toner image and the transparent toner image formed by said toner image forming means on the recording material; glossiness detecting means for detecting a glossiness of a surface of a recording material to be detected, said glossiness detecting means including a light source and a light receiving portion for receiving light which is projected from said light source and is specularly reflected by the surface of the recording material to be detected; correcting means for correcting an image forming condition of said toner image forming means to correct an amount of transparent toner per unit area to be formed on a recording material on the basis of a result of detection, by said glossiness detecting means, of a predetermined region on the surface of the recording material to be detected where non-transparent toner and transparent toner are overlaid; storing means for storing information corresponding to the corrected image forming condition of said toner image forming means; and control means for controlling said toner image forming means according to the corrected image forming condition to form a transparent toner image on a recording material on the basis of the information stored in said storing means.