BELT-TYPE FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGING FORMING MATERIAL THEREOF

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device which realizes superior image quality by enhancing glossiness reduced by ruggedness of a toner image formed on a recording medium, to a level equivalent to that of a silver salt photograph to give uniform glossiness, irrespective of whether the toner density is high or low. SOLUTION: The belt type fixing device has a metallic belt 1 stretched on a heat roller 2 and a cooling roller 4 and rotationally driven by two shafts of the rollers 2 and 4 and has a heating/pressurizing mechanism, in which a pressure roller pressurizes the heat roller from the outer peripheral side of the metallic belt being around the heat roller; and a cooling mechanism, in which a cooling member 8 is provided between the heat roller and the cooling roller so as to be brought into contact with the inside surface of the metallic belt. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI