Image forming device

Abstract

An image forming device has a recording unit for recording a recording material in a sheet form in a major scanning direction based on an input image signal and a conveyance unit for conveying the recording material in a sub-scanning direction substantially perpendicular to the major scanning direction, wherein the image forming device is provided with a guide plate for guiding while the recording material comes into contact with the guide plate on an opposite surface of a recording side, the guide plate being provided at an image recording position in which the recording material is recorded by the recording unit, and a drive roller for conveying the recording material while pressing the recording material onto the guide plate, wherein the guide plate has a planar portion along a conveyance direction and an inclined portion bent toward a side of the recording unit, and the inclined portion is formed in only one end portion of the conveyance direction of the guide plate.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.