Patent ID: 8025389

Claim:
An image forming apparatus which forms a primary image on an intermediate transfer body and then transfers the primary image onto a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising: a movement device which moves the intermediate transfer body in a movement direction; a recess-projection forming device which forms a recess-projection shape in an image forming surface of the intermediate transfer body; a droplet ejection device which is provided on a downstream side of the recess-projection forming device in terms of the movement direction and ejects droplets of ink onto the image forming surface of the intermediate transfer body in which the recess-projection shape has been formed, to form the primary image; a transfer recording device which is provided on a downstream side of the droplet ejection device in terms of the movement direction and applies pressure to at least one of the intermediate transfer body and the recording medium in a state where the recording medium makes contact with the primary image formed on the image forming surface of the intermediate transfer body to transfer the primary image onto the recording medium, and an application device which is provided on an upstream side of the recess-projection forming device in terms of the movement direction and applies resin material onto a whole of the image forming surface of the intermediate transfer body, wherein the recess-projection forming device includes a pressing member with a surface having a recess-projection shape corresponding to the recess-projection shape to be formed in the image forming surface of the intermediate transfer body, the pressing member being pressed against the resin material on the intermediate transfer body to form the recess-projection shape in the image forming surface of the intermediate transfer body.