Patent ID: 8260162

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a transfer unit that transfers a toner image onto a printing material; a fixing unit that heat-fixes the toner image that was transferred by the transfer unit onto the printing material; a cutting unit that executes cutting processing on the printing material onto which the toner image was heat-fixed by the fixing unit; a determination unit that determines which of a first size of a first printing material cut by the cutting unit and a second size of a second printing material on which an image was formed immediately before the first printing material is larger; and an adjustment unit that executes the adjustment processing on the fixing unit, wherein the adjustment unit executes the adjustment processing in a case where the determination unit has determined that the second size is smaller than the first size, and does not execute the adjustment processing in a case where the determination unit has determined that the second size is larger than or equal to the first size.