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1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a plurality of image forming units that forms an image on an image bearing member; a transfer unit that transfers the image formed on the image bearing member onto a recording material; a fixing unit that fixes the transferred image onto the recording material onto which the image has been transferred by the transfer unit; a containing unit that contains the recording material; a first supplying unit that supplies the recording material contained in the containing unit to the transfer unit; a reverse unit that reverses the recording material onto which the image has been fixed by the fixing unit, and conveys the recording material to a conveyance path communicating with the transfer unit; a second supplying unit that supplies the recording material conveyed to the conveyance path by the reverse unit to the transfer unit; a driving unit that drives the reverse unit; and a control unit configured to switch an image formation mode between a first mode in which a first image forming unit and a second image forming unit different from the first image forming unit among the image forming units are used to form the image, and a second mode in which the second image forming unit is used for forming the image without using the first image forming unit, wherein if an image is formed on a first recording material supplied by the first supplying unit and subsequently an image is formed on a second recording material that is different from the first recording material and supplied by the second supplying unit, the driving unit continuously drives the reverse unit, and, if the image formation mode for the first recording material is different from the image formation mode for the second recording material, the control unit forms the images on the first recording material and the second recording material in the first mode. |
