Patent ID: 8576417

Claim:
An image-forming apparatus comprising: an intermediate transfer member on which an image is transferred; a plurality of image-forming units arranged along the intermediate transfer member, each of which forms an image to be transferred onto the intermediate transfer member; a memory that stores a plurality of image forming modes, each of the plurality of image forming modes representing at least an image-forming unit used for image forming from among the plurality of image-forming units; a contact controller that controls a status of contact between the plurality of image-forming units and the intermediate transfer member on the basis of an image forming mode selected from among the plurality of image forming modes, so that an image-forming unit used for image forming represented in the selected image forming mode is contacted with the intermediate transfer member, and another image-forming unit is moved away from the intermediate transfer member; and an image-quality adjusting unit that adjusts, if the status of contact is changed by the contact controller, an image quality of an image that is to be transferred onto the intermediate transfer member from the image-forming unit that is in contact with the intermediate transfer member.