Patent ID: 8577239

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming section for forming a toner image on an image bearing member, a transfer section for transferring a toner image formed on the image bearing member onto a sheet of paper by pressure contact of the sheet of paper against the image bearing member with a transfer member, wherein the transfer section includes a lubricant applying section applying a lubricant to the transfer member; a cleaning section being disposed downstream of the transfer section in a rotating direction of the image bearing member and removes residual toner on the image bearing member with a cleaning blade; and a control section for controlling a rotation of the image bearing member so as to carry out a return action of a blade configuration which stops or reverses the rotation of the image bearing member, when a rotation amount of the image bearing member which continuously rotates reaches a first predetermined value, wherein the control section additionally carries out the return action of the blade configuration when the rotation amount of the image bearing member reaches a second predetermined value which is smaller than the first predetermined value, in a case where a size in a main scanning direction of a sheet of paper being passed through in a current printing job is larger than a size in the main scanning direction of a sheet having been passed through in a previous printing job which was carried out just before the current printing job.