An electrophotographic imaging apparatus includes a conditioning unit configured to heat a substrate; and an image forming unit configured to develop an image and to transfer the developed image to the heated substrate. The image forming unit is located downstream of the conditioning unit. The conditioning unit is configured to emit radiation having a wavelength between 1 micrometre and 5 micrometre, to the substrate. The conditioning unit includes at least one infrared radiator which is configured to operate at a temperature between 500 and 2500 degrees Celsius.

A power control device includes a heater, a zero-cross detecting unit, a triac, a supplying unit, and a controlling unit. The supplying unit discharges an electric charge when a control signal is outputted in a half-wave of each of a first polarity and a second polarity and charges the electric charge when the control signal is not outputted in the half-wave of the first polarity. The controlling unit outputs: in a first half-wave, a first control signal on the basis of the zero-cross point and a second control signal in a first phase different in timing from the first control signal, and in a second half-wave, a third control signal on the basis of the zero-cross point and a fourth control signal in a second phase different in timing from the second control signal. The first phase and the second phase are different from each other.

A heating device includes a resistance heating element that includes an electrode portion to which electric power is supplied and is rotatable, a connector that is attached to the resistance heating element, includes a contact terminal rotatable together with the resistance heating element, and supplies electric power to the resistance heating element through the contact terminal, and a pressing structure that presses the contact terminal against the electrode portion after the connector is attached to the resistance heating element.

A method and apparatus are provided for developing a flexographic plate, wherein the developing method comprises the step of providing washing means for washing the plate via mechanical brushes and a water-based liquid or a solvent-based liquid. The method further comprises the step of providing heating means for heating the face to be developed of the plate. The method further comprises the step of heating, via the heating means, the face to be developed of the plate to a predetermined temperature and the step of washing the plate via the washing means when the face to be developed of the plate has reached the predetermined temperature.

An inkjet recording apparatus includes an image forming unit, a first belt, a second belt, a plurality of heating elements disposed on an inner peripheral side of the first belt along a sheet conveyance direction, and configured to heat the first belt, a power supply circuit, a temperature detection unit, and a control unit configured to individually control power to be supplied to the plurality of heating elements to cause the temperature of the first belt detected by the temperature detection unit to be adjusted to a predetermined target temperature, wherein, in a case where the power is supplied to the plurality of heating elements, the control unit controls a number of heating elements to which the power is to be supplied, to cause a duty of one heating element to exceed a first duty and to be less than a second duty greater than the first duty.