| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording medium determining apparatus which enables high-accuracy determination of a wider variety of recording media, and to provide an image forming apparatus which includes the recording medium determining apparatus and which forms images on the recording media. <P>SOLUTION: The recording medium determining device 1 which determines the kind of recording medium 16, by irradiating a laser light 17 to a surface of the record medium 16, detecting a received light position and a received light intensity of reflected light 18 by a line sensor 14 which is a light-receiving element, and comparing the distribution states of the received light position and the light intensity received with previously determined distribution states, is disposed on the upstream side of a recording medium conveyance path 653 with respect to a fixing unit. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |
