Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYusaku Iwasawa, Yasuharu Hirado, Tomoaki Nakai, Bunro Noguchi
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYusaku Iwasawa, Yasuharu Hirado, Tomoaki Nakai, Bunro Noguchi
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The image forming apparatus includes a control unit that executes a supply operation to supply a toner charged with a regular charge polarity, to at least one abutting portion of a plurality of abutting portions, at the time of image non-formation, the plurality of abutting portions being formed by a plurality of cleaning members and a plurality of image bearing members, the control unit determining an image bearing member to which the most amount of the toner charged with the regular charge polarity is supplied, based on image formation information, the image formation information being information about an image formation executed before the supply operation is executed.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
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