Patent ID: 7876349

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a sheet tray in which recording sheets are held in a stacked state; an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording sheet; a sheet transporting path that allows a transportation of the recording sheet fed one by one from the sheet tray to the image forming unit; a sheet detecting unit that detects a passage of a rear end, with respect to a direction in which the recording sheet is transported, of the recording sheet that is sent along the sheet transporting path to the image forming unit, wherein a velocity of the transportation is adjusted on the basis of data on a size of the transported recording sheet and a timing of image formation by the image forming unit, after the rear end of the recording sheet is detected by the sheet detecting unit; a resist roll disposed upstream of the image forming unit on the sheet transporting path, the resist roll including a pair of rolls that are rotated while being in pressure-contact with each other; and a switch unit that switches a front end reference mode and a rear end reference mode, the front end reference mode for sending the recording sheet to the image forming unit at a predetermined timing that is after a temporal stop of the transportation caused by an interference of a front end of the recording sheet onto the resist roll, the rear end reference mode for adjusting the velocity of the transportation after the rear end is detected by the sheet detecting unit.