| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transfer device that is provided to an image forming apparatus such as a copier, printer, facsimile, or plotter, suppresses power consumption and deterioration over time of a transfer member and a transfer belt caused by the members being separated from each other, and prevents or suppresses stains on a recording medium caused by a pattern image on the transfer belt being adhered to the transfer member without using cleaning means for the transfer member; and an image forming apparatus including the transfer device. <P>SOLUTION: When a pattern image for image adjustment is carried on a transfer belt 11, distance control means makes a first distance T2 that is a distance when a position on the transfer belt 11 where the pattern image is carried faces a transfer member 17 larger than a second distance T1 when a position on the transfer belt 11 where the pattern image is not carried faces the transfer member 17. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
