| 摘要 |
PURPOSE: To provide an image forming device capable of saving power for generating heat, while quickly meeting a user's demand by executing preheating control for a heating element in accordance with various kinds of functions, in an image forming device dealing with a device provided with plural functions for a copy, facsimile, a printer, etc., and transferring or fixing an image to a recording medium by the heating element. CONSTITUTION: The image forming device capable of dealing with plural image recorders such as the copy, the facsimile and the printer is provided with a temperature detecting means for the heating element 2, a control means, a preheating temperature changing means for the heating element 2 and a means for counting the number of image forming times in each function in a specified time, to control the preheating temp. of the heating element 2 in accordance with the result of the counting and moreover, constituted so that two of a power saving state and a standby state are provided as the control means of the heating element 2 and are switched based on the result of the counting. |
