To produce an electrophotographic print with high image quality and good texture
and with minimized curling, a method produces an electrophotographic print by fixing
a toner image on an image bearing surface of an electrophotographic image-receiving
sheet using a belt fixing and smoothing apparatus including a hot-pressing device,
a belt member, a cooling device, and a cooling-releasing section, smoothing the
toner image, and releasing the sheet, in which an amount of curling C (mm) of the
electrophotographic print is controlled to be more than -0.10 L and less than +0.05
L, wherein L is a length (mm) of a short side of the electrophotographic print;
a negative value (-) of the amount of curling C means that the electrophotographic
print curls toward its back side not bearing the image; and a positive value (+)
of the amount of curling C means that the electrophotographic print curls toward
its image-bearing surface.