IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGING FORMING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a total processing period of time required for image formation.

SOLUTION: The total processing period of time required for image formation is shortened by simultaneously performing a drawing process and a fixing process in image formation using a medium wherein drawing is performed by using light and fixation is performed by using heat. The image forming device forming an image by coloring a coloring layer reacting with light is provided with: a coloring part performing drawing by irradiating the coloring layer with light; and a fixing part stabilizing and fixing color development. The fixing part brings circumferential environment of a recording medium in such a state that the color development of the coloring layer is stabilized and the coloring part performs drawing by irradiating the coloring layer of the recording medium in the circumferential environment of the stabilized state.

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