IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

摘要

A power transmission member (91) for transmitting the rotation drive power from a drive source (81) such as a motor to an intermediate transfer drum (41D) is elastically deformed by a load variation caused by the contact/separation of a cleaning section (49) with/from the intermediate transfer drum (41D). Resist controlled variables (Ra, Rb, Rc) attributed to the elastic deformation are determined previously. The transfer start position of a toner image of at least one of the four toner colors is corrected according the resist controlled variables (Ra, Rb, Rc), and the misregistration is suppressed to minimum, thus forming a high-quality color image.