Patent ID: 8472820

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming section having a photoreceptor. a charging section to charge a surface of the photoreceptor, an exposing section to irradiate the photoreceptor with light so as to form an electrostatic latent image, and a developing section to develop the electrostatic latent image formed on the photoreceptor so as to form a toner image; a transfer section to transfer the toner image onto a recording material: and a fixing device to fix the toner image onto the recording material; wherein the image forming section includes a plurality of color image forming sections to form a color image with a plurality of color toners each containing wax and a transparent image forming section to form a transparent image with a transparent toner containing wax, and the plurality of color image forming sections and the transparent image forming section are arranged such that the transparent image is transferred so as to form a transparent image layer on an outer surface of the color image on the recording material at a fixing time by the fixing device, wherein an amount of wax contained in the transparent toner is larger than an amount of wax contained in each color toner of the plurality of color toners and smaller than an amount of base resin contained in the transparent toner, and wherein the image forming section further includes a discriminating section to discriminate a thickness of the recording material, and wherein when the thickness of the recording material is larger than a predetermined thickness. the transparent image forming section does not form a transparent image.