Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yoshimi Saitoh

Hiroyoshi Haga

Takehide Mizutani

Masayoshi Nakayama

Yohhei Watanabe

Tsutomu Kato

An image forming apparatus is provided, which forms a releasing agent absorption toner image on an in-between printed sides area of a moving surface of an image carrier in the duplex printing mode. When the in-between printed sides area of the moving surface enters a transfer position at which a toner image is transferred from the image carrier to a recording medium, the transferring operation of transferring the toner image from the image carrier to a recording medium is interrupted to keep the releasing agent absorption toner image on the in-between printed sides area of the moving surface of the image carrier.

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Higashiibaraki-gun, Japan

Yoshimi Saitoh