Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus providing glossiness treatment
- Patent Title (中): 提供光泽度处理的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13316828Application Date: 2011-12-12
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Publication No.: US08718529B2Publication Date: 2014-05-06
- Inventor: Makoto Fukatsu , Yasunori Chigono , Emi Hagiwara , Shintaro Ishida , Shunichi Takada
- Applicant: Makoto Fukatsu , Yasunori Chigono , Emi Hagiwara , Shintaro Ishida , Shunichi Takada
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2010-280768 20101216
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming stations for forming a toner image having superposed toner image components on a recording material, a fixing portion for fixing the toner image on the recording material, and a glossiness treatment unit, operable when a glossiness treatment mode is selected, for glossiness treatment of the toner image fixed on the recording material by heating the toner image. The glossiness treatment unit includes a film movable in a feeding direction of the recording material, a heating member contacting the film, and a pressing member cooperating with the heating member to form a nip, with the film therebetween, for nipping and feeding the recording material. In the glossiness treatment mode, one of the image forming stations forms, as a topmost layer, a toner image having a tone gradation provided by a dot growth type screening, and an image forming station, other than the one for forming the topmost toner image, forms the toner image having the tone gradation provided by a line growth type screening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120155939A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-06-21
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