Image forming apparatus with controlled fixing temperature, control method and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104147-B2
Application number	US-201314048064-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2013
Priority date	Nov 2, 2012
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

An image forming apparatus according to an aspect of this invention controls a fixing temperature when a fixing device of a printer engine fixes an image on a recording material. More specifically, the image forming apparatus sets the fixing temperature to a value lower than that in a normal mode when printing an image in a power saving mode, and decides an amount of applied toner with which the fixing device can fix the image on the recording material at the set fixing temperature. Furthermore, the image forming apparatus generates print data corresponding to the decided amount of applied toner from input image data, and prints the image on the recording material based on the generated print data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material based on input image data;
an acquisition unit configured to acquire power price information from an external apparatus via a network;
a fixing control unit configured to control, based on the power price information acquired by the acquisition unit, a fixing temperature corresponding to a temperature of a fixing unit included in the image for…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Nagai Jun

Classifications

• G03G2215/2045

  Physics · mapped topic

• G03G15/5004

  Physics · mapped topic

• G03G15/205 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic