Patent ID: 8777216

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a suction part; a conveyor belt that conveys a recording sheet suctioned by the suction part, to an image forming part; a plurality of sheet-pressing rollers that is arranged at intervals in a main scanning direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording sheet by the conveyor belt, the sheet-pressing rollers pressing the recording sheet onto the conveyor belt before the recording sheet is conveyed to the image forming part; and a controller that controls suction strength of the suction part such that when a type of the recording sheet is a type meeting a predetermined condition, there is achieved a distribution in which a suction strength at both end portions of the suction part in the main scanning direction is higher than a suction strength at a central portion of the suction part in the main scanning direction, wherein the suction part is configured to float a portion of the recording sheet from the central portion of the suction part in the main scanning direction due to the lower suction strength at the central portion of the suction part in the main scanning direction, and wherein the plurality of sheet-pressing rollers are configured to distribute the floated portion of the recording sheet that passes between the sheet-pressing rollers to both end portions of the suction part in the main scanning direction.