| abstract |
An image forming apparatus capable of suppressing the occurrence of defective cleaning is provided. A rotatable image carrier 31, a toner image forming unit 1 that forms a toner image on the image carrier, a transfer member 41 that forms a transfer nip in contact with the surface of the image carrier, and a transfer nip In order to transfer the toner image to the recording sheet, a power supply 39 that outputs a transfer bias and a toner that is provided downstream of the transfer nip in the rotation direction of the image carrier and adheres to the surface of the image carrier In the image forming apparatus including the cleaning unit 101 that moves and removes electrostatically on the surface, the transfer bias is a bias including at least an AC component. [Selection] Figure 1 |