Patent ID: 8744292

Claim:
An image forming apparatus for executing an image forming job, the image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier configured to carry a toner image; a driving unit configured to drive the image carrier to rotate; a transfer unit configured to transfer the toner image onto a transfer-receiving body at a transfer position; a cleaner disposed at a cleaning position on a rotational path of the image carrier, and configured to remove toner remaining on the image carrier after transfer; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information indicating a likelihood of the remaining toner adhering to the image carrier; a judging unit configured to judge whether or not the likelihood indicated by the obtained information is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, and when the judging unit judges affirmatively, the controller sets a position at which the likelihood is equal to or lower than the predetermined value as the stop position; and a controller configured to, at an end of the image forming job, control the driving unit: (i) to stop driving the image carrier at the stop position before a rear end, with respect to a rotational direction of the image carrier, of an area of the image carrier on which the toner remains reaches the cleaning position and when the rear end reaches the stop position, when the judging unit judges that the likelihood is equal to or lower than the predetermined value, and, (ii) to stop driving the image carrier after the cleaner removes the remaining toner, when the judging unit judges that the likelihood is higher than the predetermined value.