Patent ID: 7965951

Claim:
An image recording apparatus, comprising: a print engine that transfers a toner image onto a recording medium; a fixing unit that fixes the toner image transferred onto the recording medium by said print engine; a medium sensor that outputs a detection signal when a recording medium passes said medium sensor; and a controller that determines from the detection signal whether an abnormal transportation of the recording medium has occurred or not, wherein when continuous printing is performed for at least two consecutive pages, if a preceding page one of the consecutive pages is abnormally transported and said controller determines from the detection signal that a following page of the consecutive pages remains in said print engine after the preceding page has been removed from the image recording apparatus, then said controller controls said fixing unit to a fixing temperature lower than a fixing temperature for a normal printing operation and subsequently allows the following page to pass through said fixing unit at a speed lower than a speed for the normal printing operation to be discharged from the image recording apparatus.