To provide an image forming apparatus that can suppress a jam, fixing failure, and image quality degradation, which result from curling of a transfer material during the conveyance of the transfer material.
The image forming apparatus includes: a transfer belt 40 to which an image is transferred; a belt drive roller 41 around which the transfer belt 40 is wound; a secondary transfer roller 61 forming a transfer nip in contact with the belt drive roller 41 via the transfer belt 40, and used for transferring the image transferred to the transfer belt 40 onto a transfer material passing through the nip; a transfer material-conveying device 230 which sucks the transfer material upward in a vertical direction, and in which the surface of the transfer material with the image transferred conveys the transfer material downward in the vertical direction; a guide part for sucking the transfer material, conveyed by a transfer material-conveying part, upward in the vertical direction; a fixing unit 90 having a heat roller 91 and a pressure roller 92; and an air current-generating part 275 for generating an air current for sucking the transfer material upward in the vertical direction.
CHIBA SATOSHI
Ryukichi Abe
Takashi Koyama
Hideo Sugai
Kenji Aoki
Hiroshi Nagisawa
Akira Yonezawa
Tsutomu Iitaka
Takehiko Katayose