Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Haruki Motegi

Takahiro Okubo

Yoshiteru Kawakami

Masahiro Matsuo

Kunihiro Kawachi

Ken Nonaka

Yusuke Kawanago

Osamu Yoshimura

An image forming apparatus acquires an amount of deflection of the transporting sheet from a reference position thereof and calculates a required shift amount of the sheet. It determines whether or not the sheet is shifted frontward. If so, the image forming apparatus acquires a second specified shift value which is determined based on an urging force and the required shift amount using a second correction equation. Alternatively, if the sheet is shifted backward, the image forming apparatus acquires a first specified shift value which is determined based on the urging force and the required shift amount using a first correction equation. The image forming apparatus performs a registration roller shift correction based on the acquired first or second specified shift value.

Image forming apparatus with width-wise sheet shifting mechanism

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Tokyo, Japan

Haruki Motegi