Patent ID: 8594525

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image bearing member that bears a toner image; an image forming unit that forms a toner image on the image bearing member; a control unit; a transfer member that forms a transfer portion with the image bearing member and transfers the toner image from the image bearing member to a recording material conveyed to the transfer portion; a feeding member that feeds the recording material to the transfer portion; and wherein the control unit is capable of performing a cleaning mode including: a first step in which the image forming unit forms, on the image bearing member, a cleaning toner image with a length according to a length of the feeding member in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction in which a recording material is conveyed; a second step of moving the cleaning toner image from the image bearing member to the transfer member; and a third step of moving the cleaning toner image from the transfer member to the image bearing member.