Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus that is provided with a pair of rollers that rotate, and that selectively carries out forward direction transport in which a recording paper is sandwiched and transported between the rollers, and switchback transport in which the transport direction of the recording paper is switched to a reverse direction by causing the rollers to temporarily stop and then rotate in reverse during transport of the recording paper, comprising:

• a guide member that is provided at a downstream side from the rollers in the forward direction transport and that moves to either a first position or a second position, and
• a control portion that causes the guide member to move to the first position during the forward direction transport and causes the guide member to move to the second position during the switchback transport,
• wherein the first position is a position in which the guide member is retracted from a path of the recording paper on a downstream side from the rollers in the forward direction transport, and
• the second position is a position in which the recording paper sandwiched between the rollers can be received on the guide member.