FIXING METHOD, FIXING DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing method capable of suppressing the occurrence of an image defect. SOLUTION: The fixing method using a fixing belt conveying a recording medium where a toner image is formed in the section from a fixation part which fixes the toner image by heating and pressing the recording medium in contact with the surface where the toner image is formed to a cooling part which cools the recording medium having been fixed is characterized in that surface roughness Rz of the surface of the fixing belt which comes into contact with the recording medium is ≤0.7 μm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT