Patent ID: 7370863

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a drive controller that controls the drive speed of an intermediate feeding roller that feeds a sheet to a regist roller that performs skew correction for the sheet; and a feeding speed information acquisition section that acquires information relating to the feeding speed of the sheet to be fed to the intermediate feeding roller, wherein the drive controller drives the intermediate feeding roller at at least three different speeds based on the information relating to the feeding speed acquired by the feeding speed information acquisition section, wherein the drive controller drives the intermediate feeding roller at at least three different speeds including a first speed at which a sheet, which is to be resupplied to the intermediate feeding roller for image forming onto a second surface thereof after the sheet has been passed through the regist roller and a toner image has been formed onto a first surface thereof, is received by the intermediate feeding roller and a second speed at which a sheet, which is to be newly fed to the intermediate feeding roller, is received by the intermediate feeding roller, and the drive controller controls the intermediate feeding roller such that the first speed becomes lower than the second speed.