Patent ID: 8208827

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a determining unit adapted to determine whether each pixel of image data belongs to an image region or a text region, wherein the image region includes (i) a first pixel of which amounts of applied toner exceed an amount-of-applied-toner limit which represents a limit to amounts of toner which can be applied to a recording material by a single fixing operation in a case where transparent toner is transferred, and (ii) a second pixel of which amounts of applied toner do not exceed the amount-of-applied-toner limit in a case where the transparent toner is transferred; a control unit adapted to control: (i) transferring and fixing of color toner and transparent toner simultaneously to the text region on a recording material, in a case where the determination unit determines that a pixel of the image data belongs to the text region, and (ii) transferring and fixing of the color toner to the image region including the first and second pixels on a recording material, and transferring and fixing of a first layer of the transparent toner to the image region including the first and second pixels on the recording material which has been fed again, in a case where the determination unit determines that a pixel of the image data belongs to the image region, including the first and second pixels.