IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of suppressing one specific cleaning member among a plurality of cleaning members from causing a frictional trace on the surface of an image carrier.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 1 including an image carrier 2, a plurality of rotatable cleaning members 101, 104, and 107 which remove toner on the image carrier, a plurality of counter members 13, 14, and 15 which face the plurality of cleaning members across the image carrier respectively, and a case member 120 which stores the plurality of cleaning members inside and can be attached and detached to and from an image forming apparatus body in a cleaning member rotation axis direction includes separation means 60 which moves one specific cleaning member among the plurality of cleaning members or the counter member facing the specific cleaning member in a direction away from the image carrier, to separate the specific cleaning member from the image carrier.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】複数のクリーニング部材のうち特定の１つのクリーニング部材が、像担持体表面に擦れ跡をつけるのを抑制できる画像形成装置を提供する。【解決手段】像担持体２と、像担持体上のトナーを除去する回転可能な複数のクリーニング部材１０１，１０４，１０７と、像担持体を挟んで複数のクリーニング部材のそれぞれに対向する複数の対向部材１３，１４，１５と、複数のクリーニング部材を内部に収納する、画像形成装置本体に対してクリーニング部材回転軸線方向に着脱可能なケース部材１２０とを備えた画像形成装置１において、複数のクリーニング部材のうち１つの特定クリーニング部材、または、特定クリーニング部材と対向する対向部材を、像担持体から遠ざかる向きに移動させて、特定クリーニング部材を像担持体から離間させる離間手段６０を有する。【選択図】図１