To reduce failure on an image caused by relative misregistration between latent images formed by a plurality of latent image forming means when forming the latent image on one and the same image holding body by using the plurality of latent image forming means.

The image forming apparatus 100 is equipped with: a plurality of latent image forming units 3-1 and 3-2 to form the latent image on one and the same image holding body 1; an image forming part to form an image for detecting the misregistration on the image holding body 1 by each of the plurality of latent image forming units 3-1 and 3-2; an information acquiring part to acquire information showing the relative misregistration amount between the latent images formed by the plurality of latent image forming units 3-1 and 3-2, which is detected on the basis of the image for detecting the misregistration; and a control part to control formation of the latent images by the plurality of latent image forming units 3-1 and 3-2 so that the positions of the latent images formed by the plurality of latent image forming units 3-1 and 3-2 are superposed on each other on the basis of the information showing the misregistration amount.