A fixing apparatus that fuses and firmly adheres an unfixed developer onto
a recording medium includes a heating roller and a pressure roller; a
belt-shaped cleaning member that is disposed so as to abut on the heating
roller and cleans the surface of the heating roller, the cleaning member
being impregnated with oil in advance; a feed roller that sends out the
cleaning member; a wind-up roller that winds up the cleaning member
having cleaned the heating roller; a press-contact roller disposed so as
to press the cleaning member against the heating roller on which the
cleaning member abuts; and an oil absorbing layer that is disposed on an
outer circumferential surface of the press-contact roller and absorbs oil
exudation out of the cleaning member.