Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for a fixing device wherein a movable cleaning web is brought into contact with a member of the fixing device to thereby clean the fixing member. The amount or time of rotation of a take-up shaft for taking up the cleaning web is reduced stepwise depending on the number of sheets of recording paper having been subjected to image recording. The amount or time of rotation of the take-up shaft is effected by using the relationship between the increase in the diameter of the take-up roller and the number of copies made stored previously.

Abstract: An electrophotographic copying machine includes a standard index board, a copy mode selection switch, an optical system, a photosensitive drum, an erase lamp, sheet feed rollers, and toner density adjustment switch. The standard index board is disposed adjacent to an original table. The copy mode selection switch selects a binding margin copy mode or a normal copy mode. The optical system scans the standard index board first and then scans the standard index board and an image portion of an original after the optical system returns to its home position in a binding margin copy mode. The photosensitive drum sequentially forms first and second latent images of the standard index board and a latent image of the image portion of the original thereon in response to light incident from the optical system. The erase lamp erases the second latent image of the standard index board of the latent images formed on the photosensitive drum.

Abstract: An image reproducing apparatus comprising a driven, toner image retaining member, an intermediate transfer belt, an intermediate transfer belt supporting mechanism including a cylindrical heating roller, and a pressure roller contacting via said intermediate transfer belt in a transfer position with the outer circumferential surface of said heating roller which is in an intermediate transfer belt removing point or a point in the vicinity thereof. The intermediate transfer belt moves in accordance with said toner image retaining member to allow the toner image to be transferred thereto when said intermediate transfer belt is brought into contact with the surface of said toner image retaining member. The intermediate transfer belt supporting mechanism contacts at its outer circumferential surface the rear surface of said intermediate transfer belt. The toner image on said intermediate transfer belt is transferred to a transfer sheet material in the second-mentioned transfer position.