Image forming apparatus and image forming method
View Patent ↗An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium, a glossiness imparting unit that imparts glossiness to the image formed on the recording medium, and a glossiness reducing unit that reduces the glossiness of at least a part of the image to which the glossiness has been imparted by the glossiness imparting unit.
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium;
a glossiness imparting unit that imparts glossiness to the image formed on the recording medium; and
a glossiness reducing unit that reduces the glossiness of at least a part of the image, to which the glossiness has been imparted by the glossiness imparting unit, by heating and roughening the part of the image,
wherein a releasability of a surface of the glossiness reducing unit that comes into contact with the image is lower than a releasability of a surface of the glossiness imparting unit that comes into contact with the image.
2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a designating unit that designates an area in which the glossiness is to be reduced in the image formed on the recording medium.
3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a determination unit that determines an area in which the glossiness is to be reduced in the image formed on the recording medium.
4. An image forming method comprising:
forming an image on a recording medium;
imparting, by a glossiness imparting unit glossiness to the image formed on the recording medium; and
reducing, by a glossiness reducing unit, the glossiness of at least a part of the image to which the glossiness has been imparted by heating and roughening the part of the image,
wherein a releasability of a surface of the glossiness reducing unit that comes into contact with the image is lower than a releasability of a surface of the glossiness imparting unit that comes into contact with the image.
5. The image forming method to claim 4 , further comprising:
designating an area in which the glossiness is to be reduced in the image formed on the recording medium.
6. The image forming method to claim 4 , further comprising:
determining an area in which the glossiness is to be reduced in the image formed on the recording medium.