Patent ID: 8818248

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming section for forming an image to be transferred; an intermediate transfer section to which the image having been formed by the image forming section is transferred; a secondary transfer section for transferring to a sheet, the image having been transferred to the intermediate transfer section; a detection section for detecting the image having been transferred to the intermediate transfer section; a correction section for performing correction processing of a position of the image formed by the image forming section based on a detection result of the detection section; and a transfer control section for performing switching control between a pressed state where the secondary transfer section is pressed against the intermediate transfer section and a separated state where the secondary transfer section is separated from the intermediate transfer section, wherein, when the correction section carries out, as the correction processing a first correction processing which is a correction processing of the image position with respect to a main scanning direction, the transfer control section sets the secondary transfer section in the pressed state, and when the correction section conies out, as the correction processing, a second correction processing which is a correction processing of the image position with respect to a component other than the main scanning direction, the transfer control section sets the secondary transfer section in the separated state.