Image forming apparatus

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2005-05-17

2005-05-17

Brooke, Michael S. (Department: 2853)

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Medium and processing means

C219S216000

Reexamination Certificate

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06893122

ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium by heating the medium having ink applied to its surface layer by a heater device, thereby to fix the ink applied to the surface layer to a fixing layer of the recording medium. A heating controlling section (78) for controlling the heater device (4) includes a fixing behavior evaluating means (9) for evaluating a fixing behavior of the ink to the fixing layer and then outputting a control amount to the heating controlling section (78) for controlling the heater device (4). The fixing behavior evaluating means (9) includes such functions as a sublimation degree evaluating function for evaluating a sublimation degree of the ink in the recording medium (1), a function for evaluating surface temperature distribution of the recording medium or a transferred energy evaluating function for evaluating transferred energy received by each area of the recording medium (1).

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