Image forming apparatus and image forming method

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus and an image forming method with which it is possible to set an appropriate amount of protrusion even when skew occurs. The image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a recording medium along a transport path to a formation area in which an image is formed on the recording medium, an image formingunit that forms the image on the recording medium in the formation area, and a protrusion amount setting unit that sets a protrusion amount of the image protruding from the recording medium to a firstprotrusion amount in a first case, and sets the protrusion amount to a second protrusion amount larger than the first protrusion amount in a second case where the recording medium is inclined to a transport direction more than the first case. 本发明的目的在于提供一种在产生偏斜的情况下也能够设定适当的突出量的图像形成装置及图像形成方法，所述图像形成装置，其特征在于，具备：传送部，沿经过对记录媒体形成图像的形成区域的传送路径而传送该记录媒体；图像形成部，在所述形成区域中，对所述记录媒体形成所述图像；突出量设定部，将所述图像从所述记录媒体突出的突出量，在第1情况下设定为第1突出量，在所述记录媒体相对于传送