Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kobayashi Kazuhiko

Toshiyuki Uchida

Joh Ebara

Noriaki Funamoto

Yasuhisa Ehara

Kouji Amanai

Sugiyama Keisuke

Handa Seiichi

Matsuda Yuji

An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording medium, capable of reducing deterioration of image bearer, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a driver to move the image bearer, a image forming device to form a visible image on the image bearer, a contacting member to form a nip by contacting with the image bearer, and a controller to control the driver for driving stop with a distance shifted on a surface of the image bearer from a start of driving. An amount of the shifted distance is greater than a width of the nip and is not a divisional number of a peripheral length of the image bearer.

Image forming apparatus

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Tokyo-to, Japan

Kobayashi Kazuhiko