| 摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the suppression of the occurrence of stains on the rear face of sheets while maintaining a good slip state between a cleaning blade and an intermediate transfer body in a toner supply mode.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus can execute a toner supply mode of transferring a supply toner image Tm from at least one image carrier 1 of a plurality of image carriers 1 into a non-image forming area on an intermediate transfer body 5 related to a direction of movement of the intermediate transfer body 5, and subsequently supplying a supply toner of the supply toner image Tm to cleaning means 13 through the movement of the intermediate transfer body 5. During the execution of the toner supply mode, the potential difference between the at least one image carrier 1 and corresponding first transfer means 9 is larger than the potential difference during image formation.</p> |
