Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
US9835990B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 1, 2016 |
| Grant date | Dec 5, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 1, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/0129
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided with an image processing unit and a heating controller. The image processing unit includes a charging unit that charges a photoconductor, an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image by light scanning on the charged photoconductor based on image information, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image, a transfer unit that transfers the developed image to a recording medium, and a fixing unit that fixes the transferred image at least by heating the transferred image. Upon receiving an instruction of execution of recovery processing for recovering sensitivity of the photoconductor that is light-fatigued, the heating controller executes a control so that a temperature of the fixing unit rises at a different time from a time at which the image processing unit performs an image processing operation.
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