Patent ID: 8229337

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier that carries an image; a transfer roller having a transfer material-gripping member that grips an anterior of a transfer material, the transfer roller transferring the image carried by the image carrier to the transfer material; a transfer material-transporting belt that transports the transfer material onto which the image has been transferred while subjecting the transfer material to suction; a fixing section that fixes the transferred image on the transported transfer material; and a transfer material-guiding section having a guiding surface that guides the transported transfer material to the fixing section, the guiding surface being disposed in a direction in which the transfer material is sucked onto the transfer material-transporting belt relative to a transfer material-transporting surface of the transfer material-transporting belt, the guiding surface being disposed relative to the transfer material-transporting belt by a vertical height such that the anterior of the transfer material is stably transported when the anterior is folded due to gripping by the transfer material-gripping member.