Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hidenori Nihei

Yuji Suzuki

Hirokazu Ishii

Satoshi Takano

Hiroshi Saitoh

Itaru Matsuda

Ryoh Tanoue

Eiji Shimojo

Noboru Onodera

An image forming apparatus in which a visible image is transferred to a transfer material includes a pre-transfer exposing unit that makes only a portion of a latent image carrier that corresponds to a leading edge of the transfer material expose, and a transfer-bias applying unit that applies a bias for transferring the visible image. The transfer-bias applying unit starts applying the bias to the transfer material, at least step-by-step, when a predetermined time is passed from a point of time at which the leading edge of the transfer material comes into a contact with the latent image carrier by controlling the pre-transfer exposing unit and a bias applying timing of the transfer-bias applying unit.

Image forming apparatus with improved separability of transfer material

Image forming apparatus with improved separatability of transfer material

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Tokyo, Japan

Hidenori Nihei