Patent ID: 8903259

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a movable image bearing member; an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on the image bearing member; a movable endless conveyance belt configured to bear and convey a recording material; a transfer member configured to transfer, in a transfer portion, the toner image formed on the image bearing member onto a recording material supported by the conveyance belt; and a control unit configured to control a timing of feeding a recording material to the conveyance belt so that a part of the recording material including at least a leading edge of the recording material overlaps with a toner layer, the toner layer being transferred in advance to the conveyance belt from the image bearing member, and having a charging polarity when the toner layer passes the transfer portion, being the same as a charging polarity of the toner image transferred from the image bearing member onto the recording material, and having a length such that, when the part of the recording material including at least a leading edge of the recording material overlaps with the toner layer, the other part of the recording material does not overlap with the toner layer.