Patent ID: 8628161
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits onto a recording medium a treatment liquid including an aggregating agent having a function of increasing a viscosity of ink; an ink ejection device which ejects droplets of the ink onto the recording medium; a conveyance device including: a conveyance body having curvature by which the recording medium is carried and conveyed, a holding device which holds a conveyance direction leading end of the recording medium, a plurality of suction holes for suctioning the recording medium with negative pressure, and a suctioning device which performs suctioning via the suction holes; a heating device which heats the conveyance body and the recording medium from an opposite side of the recording medium to the conveyance body; and a non-contact-type recording medium restricting device which is provided on an upstream side of the heating device in terms of a direction of conveyance of the recording medium so as to press in a non-contact fashion a conveyance direction trailing end of the recording medium from the opposite side to the conveyance body, the non-contact-type recording medium restricting device including an air blowing device configured to blow an air flow obliquely onto the recording medium from a side of the conveyance direction leading end of the recording medium toward a side of the conveyance direction trailing end of the recording medium.