IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING A PRE-PROCESSING LIQUID AND DRYING A PRINTING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING A PRE-PROCESSING LIQUID AND DRYING THE PRINTING MEDIUM

摘要

An image forming apparatus including an image forming device that ejects the droplets onto a printing medium, and forms an image on a surface of the printing medium; a pre-processing device that applies a pre-processing liquid to the surface of the printing medium before the image forming device forms the image; and a dryer configured to dry the printing medium on which the pre-processing liquid was applied, wherein the pre-processing device applies on amount of the pre-processing liquid that is determined based on resolution of the image formed on the printing medium, and the dryer dries using a drying strength that is determined based on the resolution of the image formed on the printing medium.