Patent ID: 8457510

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming section that forms a non-margin image by forming a toner image on an image bearing member, transferring the toner image formed on the image bearing member to the transfer material and inserting, into a fixing device, the transfer material to which the toner image is transferred, the toner image including an edge portion area in which an edge of a transfer material is to be in the edge portion area and an internal area defined inside the edge portion area; and a processing section that performs toner amount increase processing of increasing a toner amount, wherein on the toner image which corresponds to the edge portion area and is formed on the image bearing member, the processing section performs the toner amount increase processing including toner amount gradual increase processing of gradually increasing the toner amount from an inner side of the edge portion area toward an outer side of the edge portion area, and wherein the image forming section forms the toner image subjected to the toner amount increase processing including the toner amount gradual increase processing in the edge portion area, on the image bearing member.