IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO PERFORM CLEANING OPERATION FOR CLEANING DRUM CLEANING ROLLER CONFIGURED TO COLLECT TONER ON PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM

An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; a magnetic roller; a transfer belt; a drum cleaning roller for collecting toner on the photosensitive drum and discharging collected toner to the photosensitive drum; a belt cleaner; a waste toner accommodating unit; and a controller config...

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Hauptverfasser: IRIYAMA, Shota, XU, Fan, KAKUTANI, Hotaka, NAKAJIMA, Keigo, HINOUE, Kazuma, ISHIDA, Miho, OGAWA, Koji, FURUKAWA, Toshio, FUKUOKA, Shintaro, HASHIMOTO, Junichi, YADA, Kengo, OZAKI, Marika, KANADA, Soun, WANG, Yuwen, HAYAKAWA, Masahiko, UEJI, Masaki, KOMORI, Ayaka, YAMADA, Enao
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Zusammenfassung:An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; a magnetic roller; a transfer belt; a drum cleaning roller for collecting toner on the photosensitive drum and discharging collected toner to the photosensitive drum; a belt cleaner; a waste toner accommodating unit; and a controller configured to perform a printing operation for forming an image on a sheet and a cleaning operation for cleaning the drum cleaning roller. The controller is configured to perform: when performing the printing operation, collecting toner on the photosensitive drum using the drum cleaning roller; and when performing the cleaning operation, discharging the toner on the drum cleaning roller collected in the collecting to the photosensitive drum; transferring the toner on the photosensitive drum onto the transfer belt; and collecting the toner on the transfer belt using the belt cleaner so that the collected toner is accommodated in the waste toner accommodating unit.