Patent ID: 8131177

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image transfer unit that transfers a reversal image based on a scanned document image onto an image bearing member as a toner image; a secondary-transfer-unit supporting unit; a secondary transfer roller that is supported by the secondary-transfer-unit supporting unit and comes into contact with the image bearing member and transfers the toner image onto a recording medium; a secondary-transfer-roller housing unit that houses the secondary transfer roller; a lubricant applying brush that comes into contact with the secondary transfer roller and applies a lubricant to the secondary transfer roller, a pressing amount of the lubricant at a center of the second transfer roller in an axial direction being set lower than that at both end sides of the second transfer roller in the axial direction; a lubricant-applying-brush housing unit that houses the lubricant applying brush; a solid lubricant that is housed in the lubricant-applying-brush housing unit and supplies the lubricant to the lubricant applying brush; and a lubricant holding member that elastically holds the solid lubricant.