Patent ID: 8451466

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image transferring unit configured to transfer an image to a recording medium, the image transfer unit being disposed on a recording medium conveying path through which the recording medium is conveyed; a fusing unit configured to fuse the image transferred by the image transferring unit with the recording medium, the fusing unit being disposed downstream of the image transferring unit on the recording medium conveying path in a recording medium conveying direction; a recording medium conveying unit configured to convey the recording medium conveyed from the image transferring unit to the fusing unit, the recording medium conveying unit being disposed between the image transferring unit and the fusing unit; a conveyance failure detecting unit configured to detect a conveyance failure of the recording medium, the conveyance failure detecting unit being provided on the recording medium conveying path; and first and second recording medium evacuation units to which the recording medium in the recording medium conveying path can be evacuated in the event that the conveyance failure detecting unit detects the conveyance failure, wherein: the first and second recording medium evacuation units are provided on the recording medium conveying path, and plural of the recording media can be evacuated to each of the first and second recording medium evacuation units, when there is a recording medium, which cannot not be conveyed, positioned between the first recording medium evacuation unit and the second recording medium evacuation unit, plural recording media positioned on an upstream side in the recording medium conveying direction with respect to the second recording medium evacuation unit are conveyed and evacuated to the second recording medium evacuation unit, and when there is no recording medium, which cannot not be conveyed, positioned between the first recording medium evacuation unit and the second recording medium evacuation unit, plural recording media positioned on an upstream side in the recording medium conveying direction with respect to the second recording medium evacuation unit are conveyed and evacuated to the first recording medium evacuation unit.