IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G03C5/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: image forming apparatus is configured to switch target temperature of an image heating means from waiting mode target temperature in a waiting mode, where a clamping means and the image heating means are separated, to a first target temperature or second target temperature which is lower than the waiting mode temperature and the first target temperature. The image forming apparatus controls a contacting/separating means such that the time from inputting an image forming signal to when the clamping means in waiting mode comes into contact with the image heating means and forms a clamp is shorter when the target temperature of the image heating means is the second target temperature than when the target temperature of the image heating means is the first target temperature.

EFFECT: providing an image forming apparatus which is capable of reducing latency when forming an image by rapidly lowering the temperature of the image heating element.

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