Patent ID: 7769311

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a toner image forming section including an image forming member, which forms a toner image on a surface of the image forming member; an attachment amount controlling section which controls the toner image forming section so that an amount of toner attached to a recording medium at a coverage rate of 100% is 0.4 mg/cm 2 or less; a transferring section which transfers the toner image to the recording medium to form an unfixed toner image; a preheating section which preheats the unfixed toner image transferred to the recording medium before the unfixed toner image is fixed to the recording medium; a preheating condition controlling section which controls a preheating condition in the preheating section; and a fixing section which fixes the unfixed toner image to the recording medium by letting the unfixed toner image preheated pass through a pressure-contact area formed between a heating roller and a pressurizing roller; wherein the toner attachment amount is corrected in accordance with the coverage rate in the attachment amount controlling section, a control signal of the toner attachment amount is sent to the toner image forming section from the attachment amount controlling section.