Patent ID: 8311471

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming portion which forms an image with colored toner on a sheet; a fixing device configured to fix the image formed on the sheet; an obtaining unit configured to obtain an area whose glossiness is to be relatively heightened in the image formed on the sheet; and a controller configured to control the apparatus to form the image on the sheet with a first process to transfer and fix, onto the sheet, a part of colored toner for image forming when forming the image on the sheet and a second process to transfer and fix, onto a face of the sheet having the image formed thereon with the first process, a part of colored toner for image forming; wherein said controller controls the apparatus so that a ratio (M 2 /M 1 ) of a toner quantity (M 2 ) formed in the second process at the area obtained by said obtaining unit to a toner quantity (M 1 ) formed in the first process at the area obtained by said obtaining unit is to be smaller than a ratio (N 2 /N 1 ) of a toner quantity (N 2 ) formed in the second process at an area excluding the area obtained by said obtaining unit to a toner quantity (N 1 ) formed in the first process at the area excluding the area obtained by said obtaining unit.