Patent ID: 8494385

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a color toner image forming unit that forms a color toner image on a recording medium, with the use of at least one of plural color toners of different colors; a first colorless transparent toner image forming unit that forms a first colorless transparent toner image on the color toner image, with the use of a first colorless transparent toner; a first fixing unit that fixes the color toner image and the first colorless transparent toner image on the recording medium, so that an image formed by using the at least one of plural color toners and the first colorless transparent toner is fixed on the recording medium; a gloss level increasing device that increases a gloss level of the entirety of the image formed by using the at least one of plural color toners and the first colorless transparent toner on the recording medium that has been fixed by the first fixing unit; a second colorless transparent toner image forming unit that forms a second colorless transparent toner image on the image whose gloss level has been increased by the gloss level increasing device, with the use of a second colorless transparent toner; and a second fixing unit that fixes the second colorless transparent toner image on the recording medium.