Patent ID: 7274888

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image bearing member moving in a first moving direction and a second moving direction opposite to the first moving direction; a toner image forming member forming a toner image on the image bearing member moving in the first moving direction; a transfer member transferring the toner image on the image bearing member onto a recording medium; a removing member, disposed downstream of the toner image forming member and upstream of the transfer member in the first moving direction, configured to remove the toner image from the image bearing member; and a mover configured to move the toner image in the second moving direction by moving the image bearing member in the second moving direction in order to remove the toner image disposed downstream of the removing member and upstream of the transfer member in the first moving direction by the removing member, when the image bearing member having the toner image which is formed during the movement in the first moving direction stops moving.