A smoke detecting device including: a light-emitting portion that emits
light; a light-receiving portion that receives scattered light resulting
from the light which the light-emitting portion emits being scattered by
smoke generated from a recording medium on which flash-light is
irradiated from a flash fusing device; and a judging section that
acquires a light amount signal of the received light, from the
light-receiving portion, and that judges, on the basis of the light
amount signal, whether or not smoke has been generated from the recording
medium on which flash-light is irradiated from the flash fusing device,
the light that the light-emitting portion emits passing through a space
between the flash fusing device and the recording medium, is provided.