Patent ID: 8573593

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a sheet transport path that guides a sheet along a sheet transport direction; a plurality of sheet transport rollers provided along the sheet transport path in order to transport the sheet in the sheet transport direction in the sheet transport path; a driving portion that rotationally drives the sheet transport rollers; a sheet detection portion that detects a transport time of the sheet that is transported in the sheet transport path by the sheet transport rollers that are rotationally driven by the driving portion; and a control portion that stops rotational driving of the sheet transport rollers by the driving portion in a case where jamming of the sheet has been detected using the transport time detected by the sheet detection portion, wherein a sheet removal job region for removal of the sheet that was motionless when the jamming was detected is provided in the sheet transport path, and the control portion comprises: a sheet position detection unit that detects the position of the sheet in the sheet transport path in the sheet transport direction when the jamming was detected; a forced moving processing unit that, in a case where the jamming is detected and rotational driving of the sheet transport rollers by the driving portion is stopped, based on the position of the sheet in the sheet transport path in the sheet transport direction that was detected by the sheet position detection unit, performs forced moving processing in which the sheet is transported so as to forcibly move the sheet to sheet removal position at which at least part of the sheet is located in the sheet removal job region; and a forced moving processing determination unit that determines whether the forced moving processing is to be performed by the forced moving processing unit in accordance with the position of the sheet in the sheet transport path in the sheet transport direction that was detected by the sheet position detection unit, wherein in a case of performing a consecutive image forming operation for consecutively performing image formation on a plurality of the sheets, when the sheet is to be transported in the sheet transport direction toward the sheet removal position in the forced moving processing performed by the forced moving processing unit, the sheet removal position is set to a position at which a downstream side edge of the sheet in the sheet transport direction is disposed on the upstream side of an upstream side edge in the sheet transport direction of a nearest sheet that is motionless ahead of the sheet.