Patent ID: 8036560

Claim:
An image formation apparatus that forms an image by causing a recording sheet on which an unfixed image has been formed to pass through a fixing nip between a pair of rotating bodies, at least one of which is a heat rotating body, comprising: a judgment part operable to judge whether to transition from a fixing state to a standby state, the standby state being a state in which the pair of rotating bodies stops rotating and temperature control is performed so that at least one of the rotating bodies reaches a predetermined standby temperature, and the fixing state being a state in which the pair of rotating bodies are rotating, and temperature control is performed so that the at least one of the rotating bodies reaches a fixing temperature that changes in accordance with a setting; and a fixing controller operable to, upon a judgment by the judgment part to transition to the standby state, prior to performing temperature control to reach the standby temperature, cause the pair of rotating bodies to rotate, and perform temperature control so that the temperature of the at least one of the rotating bodies reaches a predetermined transition temperature range including temperatures higher than a lower limit of a temperature that is permissible as the fixing temperature, and lower than an upper limit of a temperature that is permissible as the fixing temperature.