The present invention aims to provide a surface treatment apparatus which can
modify the surface qualities of different parts of image prints obtained by various
image-forming methods, and an image-forming apparatus. For this purpose, it provides
a surface treatment apparatus containing sheet heating unit which heats a sheet,
a sheet cooling unit which cools the sheet in contact with a contact member, and
a depression-and-protrusion shape control unit which forms depression-and-protrusion
shapes by differently treating different parts of the surface of the sheet by at
least one of the sheet heating unit and sheet cooling unit, and an image-forming
apparatus containing this surface treatment apparatus which can easily form images
having different surface qualities in different parts.