Medium conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus

A medium conveying apparatus comprising:

• a medium conveying member that conveys a medium;
• a rotation start position detecting unit that detects a plurality of rotation start positions that are preset in accordance with a central angle of the medium conveying member that is equally divided along a rotational direction of the medium conveying member;
• a driving start timing determining unit that determines whether a time reaches a driving start timing when rotation driving by the medium conveying member is started or not;
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• a medium conveying member controlling unit that controls the rotation driving of the medium conveying member, in case the driving start timing determining unit determines that the time reaches the driving start timing and the rotation driving is started from one of the rotation start positions, the rotation driving at another one of the rotation start positions that is different from the rotation start position where the rotation driving is started, and stops the rotation driving of the medium conveying member based on a result of the detection by the rotation start position detecting unit.