Patent ID: 8548341

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image carrier that carries an image formed using a developer; a drive source that drives the image carrier to rotate; a cleaning member that contacts the image carrier and removes the developer from the surface of the image carrier; a control unit that controls the drive source such that when transfer of the image formed using the developer to a recording medium ends, the image carrier is temporarily stopped, and thereafter the image carrier is intermittently driven N times (N is a natural number of two or more); a measuring unit that measures an amount of rotation of the image carrier when the image carrier is intermittently driven, wherein the control unit issues a stop instruction to the drive source when an amount of drive rotation Ct measured by the measuring unit since a start of driving of the image carrier reaches a prescribed amount of rotation for stop instruction issuance Mt; and a determination unit that determines an amount of rotation for stop instruction issuance Mt that will be applied to a next drive based on an amount of inertial rotation Cl that is measured by the measuring unit from when the stop instruction is issued until when the image carrier stops rotating, and a target amount of rotation D during the intermittent drive of the image carrier.