Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Yasuo Murata

Yukitaka Kumagai

Motoharu Miki

Nobuyuki Koyama

Masahiro Nakanishi

Mineo Hashimoto

An image forming apparatus has a paper support unit for supporting paper carried by a paper carrying unit and an image forming unit for forming an image on the paper, the support unit having a plural grooves formed in its paper support surface along the paper carrying direction and a plural suction holes formed in the groove, and positions of the suction holes in two adjacent grooves being staggered in the paper carrying direction. Alternatively, the support unit includes a first surface portion on which both ends of the paper in the paper widthwise direction are slid and a second surface portion on which an intermediate portion of the paper between the both ends is slid, a length of a paper sliding surface of the first surface portion along the paper carrying direction is set longer than that of the second surface portion.

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Chofu, Japan

Yasuo Murata