Patent ID: 7991309

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming section for forming a toner image; an image carrier which is turnable while carrying the toner image formed by the image forming section; a transfer member for transferring the toner image onto a recording sheet while being normally nipped against the image carrier; a control device for, upon reception of data of an image to be formed, controlling operations of the image forming section, the image carrier and the transfer member; and a position recognition part for recognizing a turning position of the image carrier, wherein the control device counts stop time elapsing from a stop to a restart of the image carrier, calculates an avoidance sheet count corresponding to the stop time at a restart of the image carrier, and makes a toner image carried on only part of the image carrier that has been out of the nip against the transfer member during the stop of the image carrier until the avoidance sheet count is reached after the restart of the image carrier.