Patent ID: 7769328

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a rotatable intermediate transfer member that bears a toner image to be transferred onto a recording material; a first image bearing member that comes into contact with the intermediate transfer member, and that bears a color toner image; a first transfer member that electrostatically transfers the color toner image formed on the first image bearing member to the intermediate transfer member; a second image bearing member, provided on an upstream side from the first image bearing member in a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer member, that comes into contact with the intermediate transfer member and bears a transparent toner image; and a second transfer member that electrostatically transfers the transparent toner image formed on the second image bearing member to the intermediate transfer member, wherein a position, where the second transfer member comes into contact with the intermediate transfer member, is farther downstream in the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer member relative to a center of the second image bearing member than a position, where the first transfer member comes into contact with the intermediate transfer member, in the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer member relative to a center of the first image bearing member.