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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
May. 28, 2015
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Ayaka Kondo, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka-shi, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers, an intermediate transfer belt, a plurality of transfer rollers, a print control portion, and a contact pressure control portion. The plurality of transfer rollers are provided in such a way as to be in contact with the intermediate transfer belt at positions respectively corresponding to the image carriers. The print control portion executes a print process in a first print mode or a second print mode that are set in advance. The contact pressure control portion, when the print process is executed in the first print mode, reduces a contact pressure of one or more transfer rollers that are, among the plurality of transfer rollers, disposed on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the intermediate transfer belt, to be lower than a contact pressure in the second print mode.