METHOD FOR INCORPORATING FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for incorporating a fixing device where a characteristic is correctly recorded on the basis of the evaluation result of actual image forming carried out in an assembly process regardless of the physical characteristic value of a part into an image forming apparatus and a image forming apparatus. SOLUTION: Gloss level information G1 corresponding to each fixing unit is recorded by two dip switches on the basis of a measured value by directly measuring the glossiness variation of each fixing unit, and the gloss level information G1 incorporated in the assembly process of the image forming apparatus is read by the CPU 16 of the image forming apparatus via a PR_CONT15, and the fixing unit 50 is automatically controlled with corrected and set fixing temperature by a fixing temperature control signal with fixing temperature obtained by adding a fixing temperature correction value corresponding to the information G1 to a reference value via the PR_CONT 15 and a fixing SW power source 65, so that it is made possible to ship the image forming apparatus by which a difference in image glossiness is improved even in the case of using gloss toner. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI