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1. An image forming apparatus comprising a printing apparatus that includes a fixing apparatus, the fixing apparatus including:
a pre-heating member configured to preheat an unfixed toner transferred to a continuous recording medium being conveyed; a heating member configured to melt and fix the unfixed toner; a heat controller configured to control temperatures of opposite end portion areas and a middle portion area of a surface of the heating member in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the continuous recording medium on an individual area basis; a pressure member configured to be pressed against and contact with the heating member; and a fixing part formed between the heating member and the pressure member, the unfixed toner being fixed in the fixing part, wherein the heat controller controls the temperatures of the surface of the heating member so that the temperature of at least one of the opposite end portion areas of the surface of the heating member is higher than the temperature of the middle portion area of the surface of the heating member, wherein the heat controller controls the temperatures of the surface of the heating member, after a previously set length of the continuous recording medium has passed through the fixing part, so that the temperature of the at least one of the opposite end portion areas is lowered stepwisely to the temperature of the middle portion area. |
