| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus that can suppress cleaning failure caused by foreign substances such as paper powder clogging into a space between a cleaning blade and a moving body, and extend the life of the cleaning blade.SOLUTION: When the number of images formed while the length in the width direction of a transfer material P is not changed from a first length is a predetermined value or more, and images are formed while the transfer material P having the first length in the width direction is changed to a transfer material P having a second length longer than the first length in the width direction, an execution part 150 included in an image forming apparatus 100 having a cleaning blade 82 cleaning a moving body 7 executes a reverse movement operation to move the moving body 7 in a direction reverse to a predetermined direction after images are formed onto the transfer material P having the first length and before forming images onto the transfer material P having the second length.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 |
