| 摘要 |
An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus which prevents transfer memory from occurring and achieves a desired potential of an image carrier (photosensitive body) when forming an image in next cycle, thereby to obtain a high-quality output image. In order to achieve the object described above, the image forming apparatus of the invention has a belt grounding device 21 which makes contact with a transfer belt 5 and is capable of switching between grounded state and ungrounded state according to the size of copy paper P. With this configuration, because only a portion not covered by the copy paper P can be grounded according the size of the copy paper P, excessive current can be prevented from flowing into a photosensitive drum 1 at this portion, thereby preventing transfer memory from occurring.
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