A fuser allows a sheet medium on which a toner image has formed to path
through while heating the sheet medium, thereby fusing the toner image on
the sheet medium. A plurality of first rollers are arrayed in a first
direction. A plurality of second rollers are arrayed in the first
direction and respectively coming in contact with the first rollers with
a first pressure. The second rollers are adapted to eject the sheet
medium nipped between the first rollers and the second rollers to the
outside of the apparatus in a second direction perpendicular to the first
direction. A plurality of third rollers are arrayed in the first
direction so that each of the third rollers is disposed between adjacent
ones of the first rollers, the third roller adapted to be brought into
contact with the sheet medium with a second pressure which is smaller
than the first pressure.