Patent ID: 8573769

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a conveyance unit to intermittently convey a recording medium in a conveyance direction; a carriage movable in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction and including a recording head to eject ink onto the recording medium; a conveyance path having a curved portion provided downstream from an imaging range of the recording head in the conveyance direction, the curved portion of the conveyance path changing the conveyance direction of the recording medium onto which an image is formed by the recording head; a first discharge member configured to have a nip to sandwich the recording medium and provided downstream from the imaging range of the recording head in the conveyance direction to discharge the recording medium having the image thereon; and a second discharge member provided downstream from the first discharge member in the conveyance direction, the second discharge member having a nip to sandwich the recording medium so as to discharge the recording medium having the image thereon, wherein a length of the conveyance path extending from a downstream edge of the imaging range of the recording head in the conveyance direction to the nip of the second discharge member is longer than a maximum length of the recording medium usable in the image forming apparatus in the conveyance direction so as to prevent a leading edge of the recording medium from being sandwiched by the second discharge member in the nip when the carriage performs last scanning movement for image formation of a last line on the recording medium, and wherein both of the first discharge member and second discharge member are provided downstream in the conveyance direction from the curved portion of the conveyance path.