Patent ID: 7386242

Claim:
An image forming apparatus which forms on an electrostatic latent image bearing member an electrostatic latent image based on image information, visualizes the electrostatic latent image by a developer so as to obtain a visible image, and causes a transfer device to transfer the visible image to a recording material at a transfer nip portion while conveying the recording material, the image forming apparatus comprising: image elongation predicting means for predicting the occurrence of an image elongation, in other words, predicting that, due to slipping of the recording material with respect to the electrostatic latent image bearing member at the transfer nip portion, the visible image transferred is lengthened in a direction in which the recording material is conveyed; and image rear edge adjusting means for deleting a rear edge portion of the electrostatic latent image if said image elongation predicting means predicts the occurrence of the image elongation.