Image forming apparatus

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that fixes an image to a recording medium that is transported by applying heat; a guide member including a first guide surface that guides the recording medium to which the image has been fixed by the fixing device, a second guide surface that is opposite to the first guide surface and that guides the recording medium that is transported backward after being guided by the first guide surface, and a communicating portion that enables air to flow between the first guide surface and the second guide surface; and plural suction members that cool the recording medium guided by the first guide surface by sucking air in a direction toward the second guide surface of the guide member, the suction members being arranged in a transporting direction in which the recording medium is transported.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.