Fixing device and image forming apparatus
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Feb 17, 2015
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Sep 14, 2012
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Nov 22, 2011
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There are provided a fixing device having excellent fixation properties when a toner image is fixed onto a member to be subjected to fixation, and an image forming apparatus including the fixing device. A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a fixing roller and a heating roller between which the fixing belt is wound under tension, and a pressure roller which is in pressure-contact with the fixing roller through the fixing belt. An elastic layer as a surface layer of the fixing roller has, when being brought into pressure-contact with the pressure roller through the fixing belt, a pressing rate of 40% or more, and an Asker C hardness of 20 degrees or more and less than 30 degrees.
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