Thermal fixing device

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To execute fixing with remaining heaters even if a disconnection arises by outputting the information on a paper size at which thermal fixing is possible with the information on the heater disconnection. CONSTITUTION:A command to permit the copying of the paper of the size to use only the main heater 111 is outputted to a paper size supplying means 40 when the detection signal of the disconnection of the sub-heater 112 is inputted via an I/O interface 30 to a CPU 31. The means 40 locks the paper of the prohibited size of paper size selection keys to prohibit the selection of the keys. The fixing of the paper of the range where the fixing by the remaining heaters is possible is executed in such a manner even if a part of the heaters is disconnected.

Inventors

• 👤 Tsukasa Sugiyama
• 👤 司 杉山

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