Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P
Image forming apparatus and image forming method including forming a cleaning toner image
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form a cleaning toner image in a cleaning region on a cleaning sheet and a check toner image in a check region on the cleaning sheet. The image forming apparatus further includes a fixing device including a first rotator and a heater to heat the first rotator to a cleaning temperature that is lower than a fixing temperature to which the first rotator is heated in a print job and higher than a cold offset temperature at which toner adheres to the first rotator by cold offset. Each of the cleaning region and the check region has a length greater than a circumferential length of the first rotator. The cleaning region and the check region are disposed at a leading section and a trailing section of the cleaning sheet in a cleaning sheet conveyance direction, respectively.
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
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G03G G03G
inventional additional
Masahiro Yoshiharu Tomohiko Minoru Daisuke Yoshihiro
Samei Takahashi Fujii Toyoda Inoue Fukuhata