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(11) | EP 0 833 222 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | Image forming apparatus |
| (57) In an image forming apparatus of transverse transfer type, toner images, carried
by a toner-image carrying member extended by a plurality of rollers in a direction
perpendicular to a direction of feed of printing paper, are transferred by a transfer
opposed roller to the printing paper in a direction perpendicular to the direction
of feed of the printing paper to be fixed. Among the rollers extending the toner image-carrying
member, at least one of those rollers except for the transfer opposed roller, which
come closest to the transfer opposed roller at starting and terminal ends of a longest
path of movement of the transfer opposed roller, respectively, is provided at a position
spaced from a transfer surface of the printing paper, to which the toner images are
transferred, by a distance larger than a diameter of the transfer opposed roller.
With this construction, a non-transfer region, in which the transfer opposed roller
can not move, is reduced, and therefore a body of the image forming apparatus can
be made smaller in size. |