Fixing apparatus having cleaning mode and storage medium storing

Details Fixing apparatus having cleaning mode and storage medium storing Fixing apparatus having cleaning mode and storage medium storing

1998-07-10

2000-07-25

Brase, Sandra

Electrophotography

Image formation

Fixing

399 68, 399 69, G03G 1520, G03G 1500

Patent

active

060945591

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a fixing apparatus with a pair of fixing members at least one of which is rotatable, a nip being formed between the fixing members and a recording material which carries a non-fixed toner being conveyed through the nip and heated at the nip to fix the non-fixed toner onto the recording material. The apparatus has a cleaning mode for cleaning the fixing member, in which a sheet is pinched by the nip, and the sheet is conveyed in a direction by repeating rotation and stoppage of the rotatable fixing member.

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