	US 7,587,151 B2
	Image forming apparatus which excutes check mode prior to ordinary image formation
Takako Hanada, Yokohama (Japan); Naoto Watanabe, Kashiwa (Japan); Kuniyasu Kimura, Toride (Japan); Hiroto Nishihara, Toride (Japan); and Yukio Yokoyama, Sakado (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/355,103.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-064231 (JP), filed on Mar. 08, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0147865 A1, Jun. 28, 2007
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 399—67 [399/15]

2 Claims

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:

image forming means for forming an image on a recording material;

first and second image heating means for heating the image on the recording material;

executing means, which can execute, prior to an ordinary image formation, a first check mode for checking up an image, which is heated by the first image heating means and is not heated by the second image heating means, and a second check mode for checking up an image, which is heated by the first and second image heating means, wherein the executing means can execute the second check mode after the first check mode is executed;

selecting means for selecting as to whether or not the second check mode is executed after the first check mode is executed by the executing means;

setting means for setting a glossiness of the image on the recording material in the ordinary image formation after the first check mode is executed and after the second check mode is executed; and

prompting means for prompting a user, in accordance with the glossiness set by said setting means, to change a type of the recording material on which the image is to be formed.