Image carrying belt with guide member

摘要

In an image forming apparatus in which a toner image is formed on an endless image bearing member and the toner image is transferred onto a transfer medium by a transfer device, a belt guide member is fixedly provided at an upstream side of a nip formed between a roller and a transfer roller in a moving direction of an intermediate transfer belt (as the image bear member)such that the belt guide member contacts the underside of the intermediate transfer belt. Thus an occurrence of a toner scatter and a partial omission of a transferred image is suppressed, resulting in an improvement in the quality of the image. <IMAGE>