摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus for which a heated roller fixing device is employed but in which saving in power can be still obtained. <P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device 109, which is a heated roller fixing device that requires pre-heating in the stand-by state; an operation panel 115 with which a power-saving mode transition time period T can be changed; and a control part 118 which selects pre-heating or does not select pre-heating of the heated roller fixing device. The control part 118 employs the power-saving mode transition time period, set at the operation panel 115 (S301), to change the pre-heating or not to change the pre-heating of the heated roller fixing device (S302 and S303). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |